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...Sullivan his seat in the legislature, but not his place in government. He went to work first for the city's Water Department, and then took over as commissioner of the city's veterans' services program, which, in the mid-1950s, was a very big job. "We had a half-million dollar budget, big money in those days." Sullivan says. There was one unsuccessful race for the state seat in 1956, and a grandly successful campaign for his brother Edward, who was elected clerk of courts, a post he still holds. Edward kept his council seat till his term...
...economy had improved. Foreign capital, properly regulated, can provide prosperity and well being for the masses, as has been proved in Singapore, Taiwan, and Korea. Oil imports can be met by expanding the formerly prosperous mining and agricultural sectors, which would simultaneously provide jobs for some of the half-million or so unemployed workers...
...state's 3,857 county libraries have closed down, and in the past year several thousand library staffers have been sent packing. In Hartford, Conn., funds are so short that since 1968 the nine-branch public library has not been able to count and check the half-million books that are supposed to be in its collection. In Fitchburg, Mass., library officials believe they could halt the loss of $8,000 worth of unreturned and stolen books each year by installing a $20,000 electronic detection system. The system would thus earn back its cost in fewer than three...
Meanwhile, there still exists no proven method of safely isolating from the environment the millions of tons of radioactive wastes already produced for even a decade or two, let alone for the half-million years required for the poisons to decay to relatively safe levels of radioactivity. The Senate and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have already lifted their short post-TMI freeze on new plant licensing, and dozens of TMI clones across the country continue to operate freely...
...Algonquin Round Table contest for the most sensational conceivable headline, the redoubtable Dorothy Thompson is said to have won with her entry of two words: "Pope Elopes." That is almost as inconceivable as the headline reading: "Pontiff to Celebrate Mass for Half-Million on Boston Common...