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...Americans] might just send the President an immortal saying by a great American named Stephen Decatur: "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong...
...metal that Smith was to find his calling and his towering achievement. He was a born craftsman. As a boy growing up in Decatur, III., he remembered, "I played on trains and around factories just like I played in hills and creeks. Machinery has never been an alien element; it's been in my nature." During his college years, he worked for a summer as a riveter and spot welder at Studebaker's South Bend plant. Looking through French art periodicals in his art-student days, he saw how Pablo Picasso, working with the Spanish metalworker Julio Gonz...
...there are also the not-so-rich. Lydia Bach, a blonde, 27-year-old language teacher from Decatur, Ill., and Mary Jo Ostrom, 29, a fashion illustrator from nearby Galesburg, have vacationed together in southern Morocco for six years; they deliberately travel around Marrakesh in filthy old market buses rather than tourist coaches, "to be with the people" as well as to save money. At the bottom of this season's tourist barrel is a colony of about 270 U.S. and Canadian hippies who are living in sleazy abandon in Marrakesh's medina, or "old city...
...several manufacturers are already using them to move heavy equipment and products across factory floors. Air bearings placed under a one-ton machine, for example, enable a workman to move it across a smooth surface with a push of less than 15 Ibs. Another manufacturer, Airfloat Corp. of Decatur, Ill., has designed air bearings for an eleven-ton concrete radiation shielding door at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, and for easily maneuverable dental chairs...
...Moscow Bureau of the Associated Press; Paul Houston of The Los Angeles Times; Robert Levey of The Boston Globe; Richard Long-worth of the Moscow Bureau of United Press International; Michael McGrady of Newsday, Long Island; Joseph Strickland of The Detroit News; John Zakarian of the Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers, Decatur, Illinois; Miss Gisela Bolte of the Time-Life Bureau in Bonn; O-Kie Kwon of Dong-A Ilbo, Seoul; Yoshihiko Muramatsu of the Tokyo Bureau of Hokkaido Shimbun; Harald Pakendorf of Die Vaterland, Johannesburg; and Pedronio Ortiz Ramos of The Manila Chronicle. The Editorial Page Cartoonist was George Amick...