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...brought its fans as close as any Wasp crewman when the capsule was finally hoisted on deck, and as his hatch opened, Wally Schirra gave the familiar thumbs-up signal of success. Then, while the band played Anchors Aweigh, the two space travelers walked briskly down the red carpet of welcome between lines of cheering sailors and marines...
21/2 Acres of Carpet. Today Newcomer's district has an annual budget of $29.2 million, almost triple that of four years ago and more money than is spent by any other public agency in Nevada. In the same period, enrollment has risen to 58,000, which is 52% of the whole state's pupils, yet double sessions have been eliminated. Teacher sal aries have risen 25% and teacher turn over has been cut to 14% . Newcomer's own salary is $26,500-making him the state's highest-paid official...
...saying, the junior guru from Washington led the last platoon of the Nov. 27 antiwar protest march into Washington's Harrington Hotel. Later they found comfort in a plush $60-a-day suite in the Statler Hilton. In such surroundings, sprawled on couches and carpet, they held the first coeducational "soul session." One young convert, recalling with distaste an abrasive cry from some demonstrators as they marched around the White House-"Hey, hey, L.B.J., how many people did you kill today?"-suggested that the soul protester should take the long-suffering view of Lyndon's problems. Said...
...self-made young millionaires on the cover this week are limned against a golden carpet of rare coins from the collection of the Chase Manhattan Bank Money Museum. Reaching back to 1795, the six featured coins had original values ranging from $10 to $50, and today are worth from $500 to $6,000. Photographs of the vintage coins by Frank Lerner and pictures of the highly valued young men by Phil Bath, Ormond Gigli, J. Alex Langley and Ben Martin were melded into the cover design by Charles P. Jackson...
Diversification is now a top item on Singer's agenda. Earlier this year, Scripto acquired Modern Carpet Industries Inc., a Georgia-based rug manufacturer, thus expanding into a field that Carl Singer knows well: the booming $15 billion-a-year home-furnishings industry. Singer intends, after building up capital for about a year, to look around actively for other fields far beyond both writing instruments and cigarette lighters...