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...children to open accounts. Many did not claim their savings when they graduated, and by 1950 the city's public schools had amassed more than $90,000. Later the dormant savings were put in a high-yield trust fund but never tapped. Last week the state assembly passed a bill that will allow the city to use the fund's annual interest of up to $40,000 for college scholarships...
...remote Eskimo village? Answer: mail them. Sam Krogstad, a construction supplier in Anchorage, is sending the individually addressed blocks (postage: $4.33 each) and bags ($4.27) about 700 miles north to Wainwright, where they will be used to build a small harbor on the Arctic Ocean. Krogstad's bill for stamps will be about $45,000, less than what other shippers would charge...
Squid cookery has been a boon to the wrestling team of Monterey High School since its coach, Bill Grant, discovered the profits in this smoky fund raiser. Working the squid festival and running a $10 eat-all-you-want squid dinner in the school each December, he provides qualifying fees so his athletes can try out for various championship tournaments. "The first $6,000 is for the team," Grant said, "then my wife and I work other outings, such as the Laguna Seca racetrack, and keep those profits for ourselves." Roberto Dixon, a Panamanian who lives in Monterey...
...occupation of their countries and half suspect that, beneath a patina of civility, the Japanese have not fundamentally changed. The U.S., the world's No. 1 debtor nation, voices a mixture of concern and admiration. "No country is more important to our economic future than Japan," says Democratic Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey. "You want Japan to assume more foreign policy responsibility in the world, but in partnership with the U.S. The key is to get them to assume more responsibility without getting them to rearm...
...King or Bill Cayton or Donald Trump or anyone else who says he owns a share of Tyson is laughing at Haupt's offer, Mr. Haupt has a message he'd like to pass along...