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...conference of Republican Governors in Des Moines last week, there were frequent complaints that Washington was not dealing fairly with the states. Said David Runkel, a spokesman for Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh: "We had to take certain steps since 1980 to reduce our own budgetary imbalances. Should our success now be used by the Federal Government to say they can take advantage of it?" Agreed Raymond Scheppach, executive director of the NGA: "The Governors want to be helpful in trying to get the deficit down. But states have already made a major contribution to that end in the last three...
...Though 29% of the children are black, all but six of the 51 elementary schools are well integrated. There is a special school for highly talented kids, an environmentally focused school at the zoo, a high school completion program in which 12,000 people are enrolled. Says Superintendent Phillip Runkel: "Programs like this turn alienation around...
Summer N. Milender '48--Anita Runkel (Wheaton...
...squalid Pennsylvania mining town. Helen Chernen (Ida Lupino), trapped as the wife of a grimy animal who sleeps in his long underwear, schemes to escape from it all with her pretty, teen-age sister-in-law Katherine (Joan Leslie). The arrival of a team of vaudeville hoofers, Runkel (Jack Carson) & Collins (Dennis Morgan), provides the opportunity. When the hoofers entrain for the next stop, the girls are members of the party-Katherine as Runkel's wife and Helen as boss...
Thereafter, hard-bitten Helen Chernen, capable of any chicanery, arranges destiny with a stilettoed hand. She breaks up Runkel & Collins, installs Katherine as Runkel's dancing partner, then jettisons Runkel to get the girl a chance on Broadway. Next she destroys their marriage, drives Runkel to suicide, finally soars to a champagne triumph on Katherine's conquests as a musicomedy star. But for Katherine the corruption of success, at first intoxicating, finally becomes too gory; she runs off with the man Helen loves. Nothing is left for Helen but the river...