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Through the wide, empty Nebraska prairies, up into the gulch-seamed Wyoming plateaus where the snow still lay in the ditches, on up the old Oregon Trail along the Snake River canyon, Harry Truman unfurled his pattern for an expanding economy in a free world. Sure, he wanted to balance the budget and cut taxes, he said, "just as soon as we safely can. But I will not join in slashing Government expenses at the cost of our national security or national progress." His programs were not really expenditures; they were investments in the future. Cried Truman...
Week after week, month after month, three young Italian prospectors methodically paddled up & down the swift tributaries of the Caroní River. Their leader, a geologist, was convinced that diamonds were to be found where the streams cut through the jungle-swathed sandstone edges of the Gran Sabana plateaus along Venezuela's remote Brazilian frontier...
...Plateaus of water underground are not uncommon occurrences. They exist under most of the surrounding territory . . . but many Cambridge residents are firmly convinced that their water plateau is peculiar. The distinctive taste of water noticed by a few connoisseurs in the College, the sinking of the Lampoon building and the quality of Harvard Ale have been attributed to "Creeping...
...this halt is likely to be only temporary: "We are too passionate, and too blundering," says Author McKenney, to settle down on "safe and comfortable plateaus." Moreover, as she observes in one of the most cutting remarks ever made about U.S. highbrows in general, "even for intellectuals . . . there is a strong, continuing rhythm of life...
Last week thousands of dead cattle lay in tumbled rows on the arctic barrens of the great plains; thousands of dead sheep were buried on the plateaus and in the snow-choked valleys of the Rocky Mountain states. Whole herds and flocks of weak and starving animals had been without food for weeks...