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...past few years, Utah's schools have been showing definite signs of malnutrition. Utah ranks 37th in the U.S. in the amount spent on each pupil, and while enrollments have been rising at the rate of 5,000 a year, the number of teachers graduating from the state's teachers' colleges has been dropping at the rate of about 200 a year. Last summer, angered over their salaries, 400 teachers quit their jobs in disgust, and last fall Utah barely escaped a general teachers' strike. Even prosperous Salt Lake City has felt the pinch: its schools...
...Belmont Park, N.Y., the three-year-old filly Grecian Queen beat eight others to win the 37th running of the classic Coaching Club American Oaks ($63,600) by a nose...
...short, grey and handsome Cole is married, has three sons, is an elder of the Bath Presbyterian Church. His most active interest beyond work and family: good food. He imports Cheddar cheese from his district (New York's new 37th-the Binghamton area) and passes it around on the Hill. California's Representative Leroy Johnson keeps him supplied with Bing cherries, which Cole soaks for a year in bourbon to produce his own excellent cherry liqueur...
...mile cross-country event, Johan Andersen finished tenth in a field of over 60 Class B racers in 1:40:29. Following Andersen were Ebbe Dane, Hans Vitzthum, Steve Reynolds, and Fred Churchill in 24th, 25th, 33rd, and 37th positions respectively...
...appointment, though it got Canada its first native-born Governor General (see HEMISPHERE), cost Canada the most popular Governor General (the 37th) it had ever had. A trim soldier with a cool head, imperturbable nerves and mild manner, Alexander fought around the globe in the last war. He was "last man off the beach" at Dunkirk, went into Burma, the Middle East, North Africa and Italy, became Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean. He did his work well and modestly and did not rush his memoirs into print afterwards. "If he had," a fellow general once said, "the personal pronoun...