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Stephen Shaddeg watched the 1964 presidential campaign from a perch on the second rung of the Goldwater hierarcy. (He was a regional director for 11 far western states.) As the man who managed Goldwater's two successful Senatorial races, Shaddeg clearly did not like what...
Lake Erie is critically ill, and the symptoms are there for all to see. Beaches that once were gleaming with white sand are covered with smelly greenish slime. The lake's prize fish-walleyes, blue pike, yellow perch and whitefish-have all but disappeared, and the fishing fleets along with them. After surveying their sludgy waters last year, over 1,000,000 irate Ohio citizens petitioned Governor James A. Rhodes to ask for remedial action, and thousands have sent in letters. Wrote one Clevelander: "Our lake is a wastebasket for factories. It is unfit for fish to live...
Upstream from Hanoi's abattoirs, sentries manned the guns atop the Pont Doumer, a spidery span built by the same engineers who erected the Eiffel Tower. From their perch, they could see other batteries: 37-mm. cannon, machine guns, hand-held automatic rifles-all poking skyward from the taller buildings of the capital. In the streets below, grim-faced boys snapped through the manual of arms with wooden rifles while pretty girls in pantaloons hurled mock grenades through automobile tires, many of them scoring two hits out of three over 25 yds. Beyond the city, crews of workers...
...girls: shoulder-high "monkey bars," which, if they do anything, slow the rider down by making him sit bolt upright, thereby increasing wind resistance; smaller, 20-inch wheels, which are supposed to make for easier pedaling; elongated "banana seats," which may or may not provide passengers a more comfortable perch than the handlebars. But this spring there is a new gadget that may save a kid's life...
...AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 5-6 p.m.). Cape buffalo hunting in Africa, perch fishing on the Nile, and geese shooting in Chesapeake Bay. Color...