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While supporters of gun legislation reminded the Senate that George Wallace had been felled by an easily purchased Saturday Night Special, they got no cooperation from the stricken Governor, who still opposes any kind of controls. Such is the lingering influence of the frontier that not even a harrowing brush with death will cause one of its sons to lay down his arms or urge others to do so. Never mind that the maniac shoots faster and straighter. The gun is still potent as symbol-and all too often as fact...
...Party Chairman T. Coleman Andrews Jr. told the 1,900 delegates to the party's first national convention in Louisville last week. "But he looked me in the eye and told me he was not physically able." Andrews then read a telegram from George Wallace in which the stricken Alabama Governor reaffirmed that he would not accept the nomination or a draft as the party's presidential candidate...
Eventually he trounces Jarmon on the strength of his charisma alone. The last scene of the movie shows him looking conscience-stricken as he rummages about for his shattered ideals...
There was only one discordant note as much of the nation's northern plains area expressed its concern for the stricken community by lending highly practical aid. A controversy developed over two cloud-seeding experiments conducted by researchers at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology just before some ten inches of rain fell in four hours. Governor Kneip ordered an investigation into whether these tests might have contributed to the flooding, although most experts blamed the downpour on unusual atmospheric conditions. But to a gratifying degree, the people of Rapid City and their neighbors forged new human...
...dawn the rains began to subside, but a fog shrouded the city. Some 1,800 South Dakota National Guardsmen attending a summer camp joined the rescue operations. Mayor Donald Barnett ordered police to arrest any sightseers who ghoulishly descended on the stricken city. All gas service was shut off. The injured filled the city's hospitals and overwhelmed medical facilities at nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base. But for many there was no help. At week's end the toll of known dead passed 125, and another 500 were still missing...