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...have a population as high as 100,000. A.E.P. has prospered mainly because it has invested wisely in new technology, and thus has been able to drop its rates to one-sixth below the national average for private utilities. This week, in a fallout-proof red brick building at Canton, Ohio, the company will begin operating a remarkable system that will open the way to still lower costs. Minute by minute, three computers will monitor both power production and power demand at 14 of A.E.P.'s 20 plants. When extra power is needed in an area, the computers will...
...resorts are wooing German nudists, and Czechoslovakia attracts West Germans and East Germans, who hold surreptitious reunions there. Yugoslavia ("Europe in Miniature") spent $50 million last year on roads and hotels, anticipates a $60 million return this year. Even Red China is falling into step. The city of Canton was repainted for this spring's trade fair, and guest houses have been equipped with air conditioning and Western menus-but Americans are still unwelcome...
...also elected W. Frank White '66, of Winthrop House and Canton, Miss., to its Board of Directors; Charles W. Filson '66, of Adams House and Springfield, Ill., treasurer; and M. Daniel Zeddies '67, of Pennypacker Hall and St. Paul Minn., clerk...
Things are happening quickly in Canton now. The selective buying campaign has thrown the downtown merchants and the police into a panic...they seem even more confused than we are. The s.b. campaign ... is damn near one hundred per cent effective, and the town is in a real hurt. Police cruisers have started following us everywhere we go. We have to stop hitching rides, since anyone who picks us up can be sure of getting a ticket and a stiff fine. We have no car. Repairs have not yet begun on the community center building, but we have at last...
...have been calling and dropping by all week to beg forgiveness ... A Mr. B-- got up and begged in front of last week's mass meeting. He took up nearly an hour with the heart-rending story of his long-time underground friendship for the good colored people of Canton. The committee has decided to keep the squeeze on all of them for a while--to impress them with the latent power of the Negro community ... All of their efforts at retaliation so far have been clumsy and amateurish, but the state legislature has just passed a bill making...