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...precipitated an odd paradox: most of the nation's public libraries have neither the money to buy nor the space to house the books and periodicals that a growing and insatiable public wants to read, while the technical disciplines-chiefly the sciences-have turned loose such a Niagara of information that even the wealthiest of corporate, collegiate or community libraries simply do not know what to do with it, let alone how to make it available to researchers...
...lofty, disinterested attitude toward the whole conference on the grounds that the state is at the lower end of the lake, and could not be contributing to the pollution-although the delegates could see, if they chose to look, dark eddies of brown sludge swirling at the foot of Niagara Falls...
...build a slight reputation abroad as a man of some mettle. His response to Washington's cancelation of his June visit showed that-when his country's pride was involved-he had spunk. Shastri flew off to Canada and viewed the U.S. from the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, told reporters that he could not come to the U.S. this fall even if Lyndon Johnson wanted him. (He may very well come next spring.) Shastri has maintained his aid arrangements with both the big powers. The U.S. this year will give him $110 million (Washington's biggest...
Congealed Spray. After the War of 1812, the falls were fashionable. Southern gentry traveled up to see the battlefield of Lundy's Lane and to summer by the mint-cool falls. But the era was short-lived. After the Erie Canal was completed in 1827, Niagara Falls became the first frontier town on the way West. By the time the New York Central came in 1858, it was one of the rip-roaringest burgs in the U.S. Floozies and fakes, barkers and con men made the Niagara the rube's Rubicon. "Indian chiefs"-chiefly from Ireland-plied...
...Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Mardi Gras, and the twelve days of Christmas, when several Treadways feature a boar's head, suckling pig and medieval carolers. Yet Treadway, where it counts, is very much up-to-date: the ten-story Treadway Inn at Niagara Falls (see MODERN LIVING) is an all-electric motel in which desk clerks manipulate individual room temperatures to suit guests as they check...