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Over Their Heads. In Rockdale, Australia, aldermen who met to discuss a complaint against the noise and low altitude of jets were forced to adjourn five times in two hours while jets passed over and drowned out their discussion...
...tenth reunion of his college class is where a man discovers with quick amusement that his classmates are married, harried and potty as aldermen. It is also where a man realizes, in dismay, that he is too. Perhaps with the idea of softening the shock, Princeton's class of '49 mailed questionnaires to its 760 members. From 510 anonymous replies, tabulators last week could sketch the sort of old Princetonian who will make the nostalgic trip to Nassau Hall this June: he is plump, prosperous, has most of his hair, is worried about the state of the world...
...page mimeographed Neighborhood News (circ. 225), she waged her first crusade against Chicago's dirty streets and the sanitation department's lethargic collection schedules. By selling ads to local merchants, Alice and a friend raised $25, bought the city six new trash cans, and so shamefaced the aldermen that they appropriated $9,000 more for new cans, asked Alice for a list of street corners where she wanted them placed...
Follow the Leader. In Port Washington, Wis., city employees were administered their Asian-flu vaccinations in order of their importance to the community: garbage detail, rubbish sweepers, waterworks employees, sewage-disposal-plant worker, mayor, aldermen...
...campaigned splenetically for a Juan Smith slate ("The People's Ticket") headed by the county clerk, a third-generation El Pasoan of Mexican extraction named Raymond Telles. The usually mild-mannered morning Times fought a spirited battle to re-elect Mayor Tom Rogers and his board of aldermen. When the Times boasted that its candidate had trimmed the budget, Ed Pooley, a onetime bank clerk, promptly crowed that "the little bitsy budget cut" entailed a saving of exactly "755/1 ,000ths of one per cent...