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Burlington, Vt., Oct. 21 (UPI).-The mayors of Burlington and Rutland, Vt. said they would buy plane tickets home from Florida at their own expense because the Air Force junket they were on was a "fraud, a terrible waste of tax money." . . ."It's a damned outrage [said Rutland's Mayor Dan J. Healy], an outrage being perpetrated not only on the taxpayers of Vermont, but the entire U.S." . . ."The whole thing is a fraud [said Burlington's Mayor James E. Fitzpatrick], a terrible waste of tax money and our time. We're coming home...
...Africans. Even members of the moderate New Kenya Party, led by Michael Blundell, Kenya's most progressive white politician, raised the outcry that the plan was discriminatory against Europeans; it was unfair, they said, to open the Highlands to Africans, when white farmers were not allowed to buy any of the thousands of fertile acres lying unused in African tribal reserves...
...final examination. Officially on active duty, military Rhodesmen draw full lieutenant's pay as well as the $2,100 annual Rhodes stipend. Attached to the U.S. embassy in London, they get cut-rate PX privileges. They can dress in well-groomed contrast to their colleagues; they can buy cars and hi-fi sets, live in tonier style than all but the richest bloods of wealthy Christ Church College. "You chaps," said an envious Briton, "are the heirs to Edwardian Oxford...
Benson was wrong on both counts. Corn production is up by 600 million bu., and farmers piled on so much of everything else that net feed production is up 5%. On corn alone, Benson faces having to buy up to $672 million worth of this year's corn, on top of an estimated $1.8 billion worth of previous years' corn.* Meanwhile, storage, transportation and interest on earlier corn surpluses are costing $1,000,000 a day, more than twice the cost of maintaining the U.S. courts and Congress. Total added outlay for this year's corn charged...
...odds that whatever the score, the Harvard Band wins. The New Yorker, usually not given to hyperbole, has called it "the best in the businss." Harvard men are willing to buy that. The Band always wins, and it has been piling up the score for 40 years...