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There was also praise. "It is very heartening," declared a short man with glasses. "It is good to see a few courageous people." A British sailor from H.M.C. Sioux expressed what seemed a typical reaction. "If you have a man with a knife and a man with a gun, the man with the gun will win. If both have guns, neither will shoot first...
...decades the U.S. has prided itself on the purity of its drinking water. Today in many places the boast rings hollow. Sioux City, Iowa dumps ten tons of raw human sewage into the Missouri River daily; about half survives the trip downstream to the intake station through which Omaha, Neb. draws its entire city water supply. Necessity has forced Omaha to build one of the nation's finest water-purification plants, purchase $36,000 worth of chlorine a year. Still, says a Nebraska sanitation official, the water at times tastes "like hell-fire." In St. Louis County, residents have...
...large, the G.O.P. elders were pleased with the crop. Many of the candidates are lawyers, and several are doctors, though their ranks also include a California geologist, an Ohio newspaper publisher, an Indiana livestock salesman, and a South Dakota Sioux Indian who is a Harvard Ph.D. and was an official of the Bureau of Indian Affairs until he resigned to run for office. By and large they had a surprisingly strong conservative bent. In a representative cross section polled by a TIME correspondent, only a few chose to identify themselves as middle-of-the-roaders. A substantial majority arranged themselves...
Toward midnight, a senior Japanese bureaucrat cautiously ventured out into Tokyo's sheltering darkness carrying a chrysanthemum-embossed copy of the revised U.S.-Japanese Security Treaty. He inspected the streets for signs of left-wing demonstrators with all the wariness of an oldtime plainsman watching for hostile Sioux, then headed for the Imperial Palace. There he was admitted inconspicuously, waited as Emperor Hirohito brushed on his signature...
Reciprocal Agreement. In Sioux Falls, S. Dak., the post office received a letter addressed "To a Nice Boy," with the message: "Dear Boy: I will correspond with you. I am a girl. I am 14 years. I live in Holland on an island in the North Sea. I hope...