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Again and again, bands of husky truck drivers plunged out into the storm, returned with more lost souls. One man, struggling through the waist-high drifts toward the restaurant, fell dead of a heart attack. Two Amish farmers returned to their truck, brought back a load of bologna and cheese, sold part of it to adults, gave the rest to the children. The stares grew harder, the words sharper...
Even when the "evidence" exploded District Attorney Les Procter felt under such a "heavy load" imposed by the publicity about the case that he telephoned Executive Editor Charles E. Green and-as Green put it-"wondered what the paper would think." Replied the editor: "Hell, do what's right." At week's end Defendant Press, an accountant by trade had been cleared of any rape charge, but he was in the Fort Hood stockade, still" facing trial on the first girl's charge thai he had forced her into sex acts. On the same day that...
...Chicago stockyards last week Iowa Cattle Feeder Joe Dingman sold a twelve-ton load of 20 prime-fed Aberdeen Angus steers for $9,492.60. The price was a near-record 39? per lb., highest since 1952 and far more than the 27? per lb. that prime beef brought a year ago. Other beef prices climbed as much as 1½? per lb. last week, and the average-grade steer brought about 28? v. 21.7 the same week in 1957. This was good news for beef raisers, glum news for beefeaters. Each 1½ boost will bring almost a 2? rise...
Indelicate is one word to describe Washington newsmen who keep harping to Ike about his health and reduction of his work load. These patriots err by putting all their eggs in one basket. If they are really concerned for the country's good, let them also visit the halls of Congress where absenteeism is said to be high...
...market. In winter, Hanna's fleet of 40,000-ton ore carriers will shift southward from ice-locked Labrador to Brazil, cut around the world carrying 10 million tons of ore annually to U.S. and European customers. Nor will the ships go down to Brazil empty. Hanna will load them with U.S. coal, hopes to supply Brazil's entire need. Hanna's timetable : full operations within three years...