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...Attorney Merle M. McCurdy, mindful of the quicksand of medical testimony in which the Government got mired in the Krebiozen case, was careful to raise no question of the efficacy of the Rand vaccine. All he asked for was a restraining order to stop traffic in the vaccine until-if ever-it is proved safe for human use, found free of contamination, and is licensed for interstate commerce...
TARZAN (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). To establish a native girl as the rightful queen of her tribe, Tarzan (Ron Ely) faces a crocodile, a cobra and quicksand in "The Three Faces of Death." Fate smiles down...
William H. Ohrenberger, superintendent of Boston schools, argued along the same lines earlier in the day. Redrawing district lines Ohrenberger said "would be like building the foundations of school organization on quicksand; necessitating the continuous shifting of white and non-white children...
...member of the Handshoe family, I believe some reaction to your story is called for. There is no such place as Handshoe Hollow on Upper Quicksand. Your title "Happy Pappies of Handshoe Holler" and Handshoe Hollow Holiness Church have more alliteration than facts. At least five Handshoes have attended Alice Lloyd College, and all have gone on to become leaders in the mountains. We know our area is economically depressed, but we question if it is altogether quaint to prefer our beautiful hills to the slums and polluted air of cities. Perhaps our quaintness lies in our interest in perpetuating...
...make-work project known in the mountains of eastern Kentucky as the Happy Pappies. As they demonstrated the blessings of the poverty program, other local residents-mostly the pappies' wives and small children-harvested potatoes behind a mule-drawn plow on Will Handshoe's land beside Upper Quicksand Creek. Will, 72, who is distant kin to Floyd and unchallenged patriarch of the valley, had foresightedly taken the day off to go squirrel hunting...