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...Selective Service when it reclassified him 1-A. "I don't have no quarrel with those Viet Congs," blared the Greatest. So the Illinois Boxing Commission canceled his March 29 title bout with Ernie Terrell in Chicago. Louisville didn't want him either, nor did Pittsburgh or Bangor, Me. At last the desperate Muslim-backed promoters looked outside the country, only to be turned down in Montreal and its suburb of Verdun. "We'll hold the fight on a raft in the St. Lawrence River," wailed Promoter Robert Arum. Or maybe in a Saigon...
...Northern Ireland town of Bangor and the Ohio town of Sandusky are simi lar in size and economy (tourism and shipping). They were thus suited to be among some 30 paired communities used in a two-year study of the quality of grade-school education in the U.S. and Britain. A team of University of Toledo educators, headed by Professor Robert L. Gibson, gave pupils in the paired towns identical achievement tests in English usage, arithmetic and read ing. The findings, first factual evidence on a much debated question, show that U.S. children start slower than British kids but edge...
Upstate New York was, along with Maine and Vermont, once the most rock-ribbed Republican part of the nation. A map of even the 1936 Presidential election shows one big Republican swath from Buffalo to Bangor. But Upstate has changed since the '30's. Its proportion of Irish, Italian, and Polish Catholics has been rising, and these are just the ethnic groups that have been the backbone of Democratic surges since 1950 in states like Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Michigan--states that were predominantly Republican...
Better Rapport. Churches occasionally are reluctant to accept older ministers, concerned that they may be ready to retire by the time they have mastered their new profession. In the 1964 entering class at Maine's Bangor Theological Seminary, a school that specializes in training men with "delayed vocations," one student was in his 60s, another was 52. Yet nonclerical experience often gives these men a rapport with their congregations that ministers straight out of college cannot have. Methodist Preacher Russ Kemmerer, 33, a moderately successful pitcher in the major leagues for nine years-mostly with the Boston...
...With Government approval, holding companies have been set up by two smaller lines, the Kansas City Southern and the Bangor & Aroostook. The I.C., eleventh biggest U.S. railroad, is the first major line to apply...