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Municipal Matters. The march of the highways is not always a boon to the small town. Hazel Crest, Ill. (pop. 4,000) has been pierced by the new Tri-State Tollway and would prefer not to have been. Reason: the town already has one of Illinois' highest tax rates and lowest school budgets. The tollway removes from the rolls property that brought an estimated $500,000 a year in taxes. Because of the tax loss, Hazel Crest schools have had to postpone plans for kindergartens and broader art, music and physical education courses. The tollway has also generated...
...whose fate is to be decided this week by a special A.F.L.-C.I.O. committee in Washington. < The eight-year-old Columbia Basin News (circ. 11,409), published in Pasco, Wash. The News has been heavily subsidized (at least $500,000) by the I.T.U., is being sued by the crusading Tri-City Herald (14,275), which charges that the I.T.U.-backed News has conspired to force it out of business...
Former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development Trevor Gardner, who was in charge of the Air Force ballistic-missile program, was bitter in his memory of the tri-service rocket development that led the Army, Navy and Air Force to compete more for headlines against one another than for technological superiority over the Russians. Said Gardner: "We have presently at least nine ballistic-missile programs, all competing for roughly the same kind of facilities, the same kind of brains, the same kind of engines and the same public attention." Among the loudest of the critics were...
...Saigon, government officials thought the Devil King was too well equipped with rifles, mortars and ammunition of mortal make, suspected that the real Devil King was a former Communist guerrilla chieftain named Muoi Tri...
...NCAA question was thrown completely into the air by St. Lawrence's victory over Clarkson on Wednesday night, one thing is eminently clear. The varsity, although in the end it may prove to be a vain effort, must come through with a very convincing victory tonight. If R.P.I., the Tri-State hockey champion, is selected, the question will then be, who is better: Clarkson, the Larries, or the varsity. This will be up to the selection committee and it is then up to the Crimson to convince them tonight...