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...agree that an apathetic citizenry contributed to littered streets, but a current and continuing campaign of public education and strict enforcement of municipal ordinances have paid off with a great improvement and a most cooperative public. In trying to keep our city clean, we have more than doubled the number of curb miles of streets swept mechanically at least three times per week . . . Refuse collections cover 51% of the city's entire area daily, and the remaining areas have collections three times a week, a peak of service which is unparalleled in any city in our nation ... It might...
...even shot down, while the U.S. did nothing more than wave a useless piece of paper demanding retribution. Is this a lack of education in the concept of American democracy or something more serious? . . . Can we in good faith with our fighting men subscribe to a code as strict as this Soldier's Code when we have read about a man of God-a man whose very strength and being rested with God-who broke and signed a confession under Communistic torture? Cardinal Mindszenty's faith could not sustain him in his hours of torture. Why should...
...chances for a cease-fire in the Formosa Strait. But Ambassador Wang's Red China defines the "other matters" quite differently: 1) peaceful conquest of Formosa, 2) lifting of the U.S. and UN embargoes on trade with China in strategic materials, 3) membership in the U.N., 4) "strict fulfillment of the 1954 Geneva treaty on Indo-China," meaning tne surrender of South Viet Nam in July 1956 by the means of rigged and inadequately supervised elections...
...northeast and subsided to seven knots. The City of Merced intercom was filled with curses ("We all loused up our halos," said Pilot Speiser later). The hypothetical 1,000-lb. bomb landed less than half a mile from the target-a bad mission in SAC's strict accuracy book. But since the City of Merced had made better runs at Spokane on the two previous lights, the inferior third try, under the "best two out of three" scoring rules, was not counted...
...Great Depression, millions of U.S. families learned to rule their lives by the household budget, religiously parceling out set amounts for all needs, from mortgage payments to shoe-shines. Many families divided their income into envelopes firmly labeled Rent, Food, Electricity, etc.; others made ends meet by keeping a strict household ledger of every penny earned, every penny spent. But as the U.S. economy burgeoned, the rigid family budget began to die out. In the midst of prosperous 1955, a manager of Home Life Insurance Co. estimates that only one of 200 families keeps a detailed day-by-day ledger...