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...story, according to Moore: in the 1880's two prospectors discovered a fabulously rich vein of gold-bearing ore in the hills 20 miles outside of Moscow, Idaho. One shot the other, then headed to town, leaving a wheelbarrow to mark the mine...
When he returned, an avalanche had covered up the wheelbarrow and he was never able to find the vein again. Who found it? Moore, of course. And he also found the wheelbarrow, the dead partner's skull and the well-rusted murder weapon, a Winchester rifle. To prove his point, he displayed a battered old wheelbarrow in a Moscow general store in 1936. Newspapermen sent stories and pictures of the wheelbarrow all over the country, and then Moore mailed out a blizzard of clippings...
This dustup only served to prove how futile and eventually disillusionary a practice it is to cover over disagreements with calculated ambiguities. In the new, more realistic vein, the West's proposal for the forthcoming political conference declares that no nation on the U.N. side need be bound by any decision for which it has not voted...
With one of the volunteer's arms bared and a rubber tube wrapped tight around it, a technician slipped a needle into a vein and drew out 5 cc of blood. The donor's name and address were noted and he was promised a prompt report by mail. Of the first day's 415 samples, 388 were negative; the rest were positive or doubtful. To each of these 27 subjects went a letter asking him to return for further testing or to see his own doctor and have him send the Health Department a report. After...
...that he had really been axed for breathing too hotly on G.O.P. Governor Alfred E. Driscoll's administration. Last week, while questioning New Jersey's (just retired) Republican state chairman, a prosperous, churchgoing real-estate executive named John J. Dickerson, the legislators cut into a thick, salty vein of untapped political history...