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Where U.S. Highway 75 broadens into Main Street, there is Sioux Center, Iowa. Sioux Center is a Corn Belt town of 2,000 people. Of a Saturday evening, shiny new Fords and Plymouths, parked at an angle to the curb, line both sides of the street. Back from the broad sidewalks, the one-story frame and brick buildings house a pair of hash-houses, a Rexall drugstore, a Chevrolet agency, Dejong's Hatchery. There are no traffic lights...
...behind Main Street, the white frame-houses are scrubbed spotless, and box elders border carefully trimmed lawns. The citizens of Sioux Center bear such names as Gerritsma, Ver Steeg, Van de Garde, Schouten; some 97% of the town's population is of Dutch ancestry. Communicants of the strict Reformed (Calvinist) faith, they keep a tight rein on their youngsters. Main Street has one beer parlor, no state liquor store, no dance hall...
Southern politicians were still circling the White House like Sioux menacing a covered wagon. A lot of the hallooing after Harry Truman's scalp came from men who simply enjoyed listening to the echo, but last week the President heard one statement which hurt. Alabama's Senator John J. Sparkman, former Democratic whip of the House, and hitherto an ardent Truman supporter, demanded that the President remove himself as a candidate...
Some scientists' interest in cancer is more than scientific. Quiet, balding Pathologist Albert M. Harris was one of those. Day after day he worked in the laboratory of the Sioux Valley Hospital at Sioux Falls, S.Dak. His father, also a physician, had had cancer. Young Dr. Harris was looking for a quick and sure test for the disease...
...first time, A.M.A. gave a gold medal and a certificate "for exceptional service by a general practitioner." The winner of the honor was big (6 ft., 245 lbs.) Dr. Archer Chester Sudan (rhymes with Sioux Dan), 55, whose hamlike hands have been caring for patients in Colorado mountain villages for more than 20 years...