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Died. Leroy Gore, 73, self-described "thoroughly conservative Republican country editor" of the weekly Sauk City (Wis.) Star who was alarmed by Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist excesses, started an unsuccessful "Joe Must Go" drive in 1954 and lost his newspaper after being harassed by local authorities; of emphysema; in Jefferson...
What is a citizen of depressed Detroit, booming Houston or bucolic Sauk Centre, Minn., to make of the phenomenon of New York City? A visitor is immediately struck by the signs of New York's unsurpassed wealth: majestic skyscrapers thrusting boldly into the air, great ships busily plying its waters, expensive limousines hurtling down its avenues, well-dressed people rushing along Wall Street, Fifth Avenue and the other storied thoroughfares. These signs of affluence symbolize the city's position as the capital of American finance and commerce. All the more incredible, then, that the New York City government is broke...
...does step down, he would most probably be replaced by Sauk-ham Soy, a retired lieutenant general who is now president of the Senate. The key question would then be whether or not the Khmer Rouge would be willing to try to negotiate a settlement with Sauk-ham Soy, something they were unwilling to do with...
...carcinogenic asbestos particles in their drinking water. At the same time, the Reserve Mining Co. is dumping thousands of tons of taconite tailings into Lake Superior every day, polluting the once limpid waters. Contentment can sometimes amount to middle-class complacency. Once, in its years in the cultural wilderness, Sauk Centre, Minn., was Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, his symbol for a kind of porcine American self-satisfaction: "The contentment of the quiet dead . . . dullness made...
...notice is better than no notice at all, and so the folks in Sauk Centre, Minn., decided to keep right on making the best of that bad review native son Sinclair Lewis gave them 45 years ago. To prove that the place was never the philistine hotbed that the late author pictured in Main Street, the fictional "Gopher Prairie" celebrated Lewis' 75th birthday five years ago and started calling Main Street "the Original Main Street." Now they're heaping more coals of praise on old Red's head by raising $25,000 through the Sinclair Lewis Foundation...