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...trouble keeping out of one another's way. On Michigan's Boyne Mountain, colorfully garbed schussboomers cheerfully endured long waits to ride lifts up the glistening white mountainside. Restaurants on Colorado's Aspen Mountain were overrun with crowds. Thousands left their sitzmarks on the deep powder slopes of California's Sierras and Washington's Cascade range. Whenever there was snow, busloads of weekend skiers left New York and Chicago at first light, and in Nevada deserts, sweaty cowboys watched mountain-bound cars go by, skis lashed to the roofs...
...wanted to expose mosquito larvae to radiation. So he had gone to the hospital and taken a 10-mg. radium needle. At home he opened it, expecting to find a single piece of radium. Instead, out came a powder that spilled over his hands...
...aboard an R.A.F. jet Comet bound for Britain. The British have stationed 37,000 troops on Cyprus, which is smaller than Los Angeles County. In the eternal check against sabotage they go so far as to unscrew the caps of toothpaste tubes and sniff face powder...
Scratched. In Sydney, Australia, Norma Mary Dan, 33, won a divorce after testifying that her husband had poured itching powder on her bed several times, doused her clothes in acid "so that they just fell apart as I moved...
Minutes after bumping down on the scrubby landing strip at little (pop. 1,440) Benson ("Used to have to run the cows off here." he said), the Senator, a tall, bronzed, lean-jawed, silver-haired man of 49. was shaking hands with sleepy-eyed shift workers at the Apache Powder Corp. plant. The day wore swiftly on, the miles slipped by. At Merrill's grocery in the Mormon crossroads of St. David (pop. 10), Goldwater paused for breakfast-a bottle of Coke-before hustling on to a campaign appearance in rural Pomerene (pop. 150). Then came...