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This year's record inrush of students, ski bums and ski beats produced a rash of fights, breakage and stolen equipment that led some irate Aspenites to call for a police crackdown on all young people. But the Aspen Times editorialized in favor of moderation: "Not having money is no crime, and the fact that some skiers may be temporarily out of work should not give the police the right to harass them." Bars and restaurants try to maintain a close surveillance of identity cards to avoid selling liquor to those under 21, or beer to those under...
...door. The housing industry's hard-sell tactics, full of gimmicks that staid real estate men frown on, do most to revive old fears that Florida's economy, which collapsed so disastrously in the '205, is again made of papier-mache and overpapered mortgages. Despite the inrush of population, home builders still have put up more houses than they can sell. Says Economist Wolff: "There is no justification for building so many homes as are being built in Florida." Yet the land boom shows few signs of busting. Land prices have slipped only slightly, though the recession...
...Army Nurse Corps there are some 40,000 women; 27,000 of them are overseas. Although many of them, in temporarily inactive theaters, are idle, they have to be kept at hand for any sudden inrush of patients. The Corps says it needs 1,000 more for overseas. The 13,000 left in Army hospitals in the U.S. are too few. The Corps is after at least 10,000 more...
...boat deck. The lifeboat itself was eventually freed from the ship and stood a good chance of safety. But as the Yorkshire sank she listed heavily to starboard and this lifeboat was capsized by the funnel, and we believe that the occupants were drawn down it by the inrush of water...
...readers last week, So Great a Man was expected to do as well. U. S. booksellers, acting on advance tips that the book "will suck readers along from page to page as did Anthony Adverse or Gone With The Wind," reported themselves well prepared to cope with the first inrush of readers. First-line critics, notoriously disquieted by suctions, headed for the hills...