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...insure the fulfillment of the "whole man." He attacked the Democrats for using too much governmental power at home and too little abroad in the struggle with Communism. The goal of the U.S., he said, was "to flourish as the land of the free, not to stagnate in the swampland of collectivism, not to cringe before the bully of Communism." In a phrase reminiscent of Wendell Willkie's acceptance speech in 1940, he cried: "Only the strong can remain free; only the strong can keep the peace...
Gripping heavy wooden clubs to fend off water moccasins and rattlesnakes, 400 sailors sludged through eastern Mississippi swampland last week, poking and peering. From 14-ft. aluminum skiffs, equipped with walkie-talkies, search teams dipped grappling hooks into the sluggish, brown Pearl River. State highway patrolmen went back to knocking on doors, searching for a clue they might have missed. For the fourth time President Johnson dispatched new contingents of FBI agents, who set about quizzing every employee at the two principal manufacturing plants in nearby Philadelphia, Miss. But still there was no trace of the three young civil rights...
NASA is currently considering three locations in the city, O'Neill said. They are Technology Sq., the city dump, and 25 acres of swampland near the Concord Turnpike...
However, a spokesman for Arthur D. Little, Inc., which owns the swampland jointly with the Metropolitan District Commission, labeled as "fiction" an earlier report that NASA might build on the site...
Where the Father of Our Country had failed, who would take a financial chance? Previews, Inc., that's who. Previews, Inc. is a real estate firm that, with associated companies, has purchased about 160,000 acres of Dismal Swampland, is turning some of it into farm land, hopes to sell more to housing developers for Norfolk's spreading population...