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...proposal to allot $600 to help the state root out a blight called pine blister rust went down because, as one man said: "We can do it better, and for nothing." One item on the "warrant," or agenda, suggested replacing Mount Vernon's 22 conventional street lights with 17 mercury-vapor lights to provide better illumination. When the first selectman explained that the change would increase the monthly electric bill by $25.90, a resident shouted: "Forget it!" It was unanimously voted down...
Little of Europe's new advertising creativity is to be seen on television. Government-owned stations generally allot commercial time sparingly and subject messages to rigorous regulation. Accordingly, magazines and newspapers share two-thirds of Europe's advertising billings. Some major publications, among them the Sunday Times, Paris-Match and Stern, have achieved the position of rationing space among a long list of waiting advertisers...
...Outside the closed-door sessions, leaders of ten dissident Catholic organizations, both clerical and lay, joined together in a loose coalition to present the bishops with a "People's Agenda," a grab bag of 41 wildly varied demands for church and social reform. Among them: that the church allot a regular tithe to blacks; back immediate withdrawal from Viet Nam; set up a draft-counseling program; develop family-planning programs; re-examine Catholic teaching on divorce; phase out parochial schools; endorse optional celibacy and female priests...
...sponsor-Marc J. Roberts '64, assistant professor of Economics-argued that the motion as presented could still permit a double punishment-probation and scholarship reduction-for scholarship students. In reply, supporters of the original motion said that Roberts' amendment would not allow the financial aid committee any discretion to allot its limited funds to the needy students whose overall performance was highest...
...from this docket last year and how the numerical evaluations of this year's students in the docket compare with this year's applicants overall. Thus, if California's applicants suddenly become twice as good as last year (by the numbers) relative to the whole group, the computer will allot more places to California-but not twice as many...