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What we need to envision the future, ... stop thinking about the present and saying, 'Let's put a Band-Aid here.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
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St. Louis
Missouri
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