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...Harbor amusement park once attracted 200,000 visitors a year, now draws fewer than 30,000. So depleted are the ranks that outsiders have to be hired to operate the shabby House of David Hotel in downtown Benton Harbor. Sighs pigtailed Tom Dewhirst, 58, head of the Benton Harbor Chamber of Commerce: "Nothing new has happened around here in 30 years...
...courtlike Washington chamber last week, there began a hearing that very directly affects the fortunes of the world's biggest corporation and 2,840,500 investors. The Government's long-awaited investigation of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. was under way. For perhaps the next two years, the seven-member Federal Communications Commission will hear hundreds of witnesses and weigh tons of documents to determine what should be reasonable rates and profits for a company that is really a tolerated monopoly. Last week Bell got in first licks. Far from earning an excessive profit, argued Vice President...
...night there alone. His remorse was short lived: he was soon back with his new Queen, Marie-Louise, each with a separate wing. Last King of France to reside there was the bourgeois Louis Philippe, who raised a chuckle when he widened the bed in the Queen's chamber by a foot (overleaf) so that he and Queen Marie-Amélie could snuggle in together...
...tutor forbids off-campus students to live on Putnam Ave, because his "impression of the neighborhood is that it is pretty bad." The Young Republicans show some inclination to elect a gorilla as their club's vice-president. The Atomic Energy Commission blames last summer's $1.5 million bubble-chamber explosion on faulty beryllium windows and says that only luck kept it from being worse...
Still, it was strictly an economy-class operation. Bing would have liked to have staged something extravagant, such as Aida or Turandot. Instead, the proud company was restricted to a measly six performances of two low-budget chamber operas - Rossini's Barber of Seville and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro - at the small (1,200-seat) Odeon Theater in Paris. Thus programmed, the Met's venture was bound to run into trouble...