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...Niagara Falls...
...story is irresistibly alive, initially nostalgic, ultimately pitiable. Too raw to be first-rate social history, it never really becomes the true-life epistolary novel which Editor Myers claims. The Joneses wrote of farming and money, hurricanes and family visits, a trip to Niagara and Mammoth Cave, a cousin dead of yellow fever, an uncle disgraced by drink and a woman, a sermon enjoyed, a length of calico purchased. They wrote also about their slaves-referring to them usually, with unsettling reverberations today, as "the people...
...lost to Niagara 95-69 and Long Island 78-67 at the Queen City Tournament in Buffalo, and its problems appear to be just beginning
Today the Sutherland voice towers like a natural wonder, unique as Niagara or Mount Everest. Sills' voice is made of more ordinary stuff; what she shares with Callas is an abandon in hurling herself into fiery emotional music and a willingness to sacrifice vocal beauty for dramatic effect. Sutherland deals in vocal velvet, Sills in emotional dynamite. Sutherland's voice is much larger, but its plush monochrome robs it of carrying power in dramatic moments. Sills' multicolored voice, though smaller, projects better and has a cutting edge that can slice through the largest orchestra and chorus. Sometimes...
...state abortion seekers are not limited to New York City. Detroit Manufacturer Martin Mitchell, for instance, has established a clinic near Niagara Falls, N.Y., and has arranged a thrice-weekly charter flight to bring women there from cities in the Middle West. Others arrive by car. His venture has been booming, to the extent of 175 cases a week. Mitchell, who advertises his clinic on billboards, has even hired a plane to tow a huge airborne sign over Miami Beach. Once he planned airborne abortions, to be performed in a circling jetliner, but he could not find doctors willing...