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Miss Brown, whose appointment became effective August 1, has a varied background in teaching and educational administration. She is an honors graduate of Wells College, Aurora, N. Y., and received her M.A. degree in English literature from the University of Chicago...
Some of these stations will do exciting things, such as shooting rockets to the top of the atmosphere or launching great balloons with instrument-packed gondolas. The duties of others will be exciting only to dedicated specialists: monotonous observations of winds, ocean currents, cosmic rays, the aurora, changes in the sun's surface, fading of radio waves and twinkling of stars. But all such observations will be important, and the data flowing from them will be carefully stored and catalogued in designated centers...
...troubles. Once he paid a $50 fine and spent a night in jail for speeding, another time was fined $10 for disturbing the peace after he tried to remove a toy car from a repair shop (he said that it belonged to his son). In a fight with an Aurora justice of the peace. Egan got punched in the nose, lost his glasses, took after his opponent with a pair of scissors. He won such a reputation for his colorful use of abusive and obscene language that the city's Ministerial Association declared "a moral emergency...
Despite this show of disapproval, Egan somehow managed to look good to a lot of his constituents. His antics brought Aurora plenty of publicity, and after each squabble, he tried to make it seem that Paul Egan, the man of the people, was defending the city against entrenched interests. When the city council refused to pay for spraying the area against mosquitoes and flies, the Mayor guaranteed the payment out of his own pocket, sprayed the city, later collected $7,000 in contributions from the townspeople...
...spat triumphantly into his desk: "It all proves one goddamned thing. You can't fool the people. The world is watching a new concept of government, where the people make themselves heard above the horse manure of the vested interests. The world will be hearing from Aurora in the next four years, you can bet your tail on that...