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...father figure, an aged Japanese urologist, helps Finkelstone to discharge his guilt for what happened at Hiroshima by consenting to sterilize the silly schnook; the urologist's death is only casually connected with the affair, but Finkelstone greedily takes the blame for it. The surrogate son, a Sioux scholarship student turned beatnik, helps Finkelstone to engage in hallucinogenic mushroom-munching; the beatnik's death is only remotely related to the hero's spree, but Finkelstone thirstily accepts responsibility. The novel is grotesque and often unpleasant, but it is also funny and unexpectedly successful as the study...
Roof Water. In Unityville, S. Dak., a twelve-family hamlet 42 miles northwest of Sioux Falls, Mrs. Alice Lundberg, 36, drives her white '59 Mercury eight miles from her farmhouse each morning to reach the white wooden schoolhouse by 7:45 a.m. Alone in the 28-ft. by 25-ft. classroom, she spends 80 minutes plotting the day's 36 separate topics for her 17 pupils, who come from seven nearby farm families. She teaches them on six grade levels, from first to eighth (she has no sixth and seventh graders). The 68-year-old school is surrounded...
...Avenue Georges V is among the best in Paris, but once a customer goes down the flight of red concrete steps and through the swinging doors, another world surrounds him. Staring flintily out over the dance floor is a large, yellowed portrait of Chief Crazy Horse of the Sioux nation, and near the black bar are protruding long-handled steer horns. And on the minuscule stage are some of the most majuscule nudes in the world...
...assurances were hardly enough to allay farmers' fears, so Goldwater summoned G.O.P. leaders from eleven farm states to a secret strategy meeting at Des Moines' Municipal Airport. He listened to their views for nearly an hour. A few days later, at the National Corn-Picking Contest at Sioux Falls, S. Dak., Barry told some 20,000 farm folk: "You and I and all good Americans, we all want a free and prosperous American agriculture, with a minimum of federal controls and intervention. That is the direction in which we must move-forward, toward freedom and progress." To accomplish...
...rated least likely to succeed was Billy Mills, 26, a Marine lieutenant entered in the 10,000-meter run. No American had ever won the Olympic 10,000 (or even placed better than sixth), and the experts wondered why Mills even bothered to show up. A half Sioux Indian from South Dakota, he was only a so-so runner at the University of Kansas, failed to make the U.S. team in the 5,000 meters, won a trip to Tokyo when he finished a distant second behind Gerry Lindgren in the 10,000. But he could do one thing...