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Then, and only then, will Andover consider whether the applicant has the $1,800 a year that going there costs. Probably three-fourths of the boys will be able to pay full freight. For the rest, rich Andover will dip into its pockets for scholarships and loans tailored to the boys' needs. Thus will be formed the group of next year's new boys at a school that aims by intensity and excellence...
Died. Thomas Baker Slick. 46. lusty San Antonio wheeler-dealer, whose shrewd investments turned a multimillion-dollar inheritance from his wildcatting father into a scatter-gunned business empire (ranching, construction, oil. mining, manufacturing and air freight); of injuries rei ceived when his light plane crashed in j southwestern Montana. The flip side of I the coin from his sober, mild-mannered I brother Earl, who concentrated on running Slick Airways. Tom preferred to let his money make the money, hired managers to handle the headaches while he indulged a Stetson-ful of sidelines: he pursued the Himalayas' Abominable Snowman...
Looking Up. At the moment, Catoosa (pop. 638) has neither a water nor a sewage system. Most of its streets are unpaved. Many of its stores are abandoned. No passenger trains stop at the forlorn depot; no freight has been moved out since a local coal mine shut down a year or so ago. Catoosa is not even on the Arkansas, which passes 15 miles away at Tulsa. But the river at Tulsa is so impossible that engineers threw up their hands, decided to branch off the Arkansas and dredge their channel up the Verdigris River, a tributary, to Catoosa...
...final camp, Chan used his last article of wealth, a Parker pen set, to bribe his way into the prison hospital. On a stormy night he slipped out a window, climbed the fence, and raced between the guard towers. Hopping a freight train bound for Canton, Chan hid out with friends who gave him food and civilian clothes. From September 1961 until he made it across the border, Chan was constantly on the move, sometimes staying with a sympathetic cop of the PSB, more often working for the black marketeers of Canton running gold bars, ginseng, watches and saccharin upriver...
...North Western strike was likely to prove a turning point. Whatever settlement results from it will go far towards setting a pattern not only for railroad telegraphers but also for all other technologically obsolete railroad employees-including 45,000 "firemen" who ride diesel locomotives on the nation's freight trains and in switching yards...