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...Columbia River, over which the rich fur trade of the Northwest might be diverted from British Canada to the U.S. . Eighteen months later -on Nov. 15, 1805- they reached the Pacific Ocean. This month Lewiston, Idaho, and cities of the Northwest in the valleys of the Clearwater, Snake and Columbia Rivers, are observing the 150th anniversary of the Lewis & Clark Expedition...
...continual tension, is one of the refinements we collegians have added to what was once a pretty straightforward game. Trying to be honest for once, you let escape a blissful sigh. There went that date, daddy-o. "You beast! You're enjoying it!" She recoils like a snake. Remember the rules: you decide what to do, but she decides...
...Modesto's revelation is a modern snake oil cure a wild blend of How to Win Friends and influence People with what Riesman calls the "other-directed" personality. Bottled under the label Contralism, author Harrington's idea is not a now one, but it is a vivid satire on the life of the conformist and his descent into modiocrity...
Sumner was snake-infested swamp until it was cleared for cotton in 1873. Like many another U.S. town, it was built around a courthouse, and its pioneers brought into the wilderness a respect for Anglo-American law. But they also brought the hatreds and half-digested lessons of Reconstruction years and a socio-economic system that would constantly conflict with the tradition of Anglo-American justice as those traditions lived and evolved among the vast majority of their countrymen...
Ounce of Prevention. In Athens, Tenn., asked by police why he chained his wife to the bed during the night after he made her work the fields all day. Farmer Lee McDowell, 46, explained gloomily: "I thought she'd get snake...