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...Climax is John W. Galbreath & Co., headed by lively, slight John Galbreath, 63, who makes a specialty of buying company towns, sprucing them up and selling the houses back to the workers. Since 1941, Galbreath has revitalized and sold 17 company towns, including those of U.S. Steel, Westinghouse Air Brake Co. and Erie Mining Co. When the Climax Molybdenum Co. started having doubts about its town (dozens of employees had moved away), Galbreath moved in, bought the town of Climax for $1,500,000 and got ground near Leadville to set up a new community. He is selling the houses...
...word about the greatest single obstacle to growth, namely the opposition of almost all labor unions to increasing production. Federal money for schools, housing, sewage disposal, etc. would be trivial compared with the growth that would be brought about if organized labor took its foot off the brake...
...destination is just beyond sensible walking distance. Most children gauge walking distance at two blocks. If the theory of evolution is still working, it may well one day transform the suburban housewife's right foot into a flared paddle, grooved for easy traction on the gas pedal and brake...
...went so fast-he kept putti"? on the gas instead of the brake, and couldn't figure out what he was doing wrong. We were all terribly frightened, but it was fun." When Pat was 13 her mother died, and Pat became the homemaker for her father and brothers. (The Bender children had grown up and moved away.) During the harvest, she worked in the fields with her family and the hired hands, then headed back to the kitchen to cook. "I learned fast," she remembers. "I'd bake a half-dozen pies at a time...
After taking 60 driving lessons, West Germany's Bundestag Vice President Carlo Schmid, 63, soloed through the streets of Bonn in a Mercedes-Benz 220. His adventure ended when he mistook his foot throttle for the brake, piled into the Alt Heidelberg beer hall with his front bumper nosed squarely up to the bar, stepped out with minor bruises. The dust had no sooner settled than the air was filled with political gags. Quipped Bonn's Mayor Wilhelm Daniels, an Adenauer supporter: "I know that Carlo Schmid does not particularly like Bonn, but this is no reason...