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...community's leaders say that the remoteness of Barrow is probably the main reason for one of the area's most perplexing problems-excessive drinking. Of the 700-odd arrests made by Barrow police over the past year, almost all were related to drinking. An important police chore during night hours in Barrow is getting drunken townspeople in from the freezing cold. "They're simply bored," says Mrs. Sadie Neakok, 51, the district magistrate in Barrow. "There's nothing better to do than get drunk." Recreation is limited to basketball at the school gym, unreliable cable...
...often, children's movies are a chore for parents, a bore for kids. The Railway Children offers so many quiet pleasures, however, that not only will the kids be enchanted but their elders might even want to sneak off and see it on their...
...moral agonies of the French Resistance. In fact, Vercors touches on enough material for a 600-page chronicle. Yet he has chosen to tell his story with unleavened haste in a brisk series of interviews between patient and analyst. In art as in life, the device frequently proves a chore...
...only way out of the mess, decided Bank President Ralph Comstock Jr., was to reconstruct each check, shred by quarter-inch shred. So the workers began their chore, segregating the slices by color, length, width, signatures and amounts, then matching and pasting the checks together one by painstaking one. More than 2,000 checks worth about $300,000 have been reassembled. To speed things up the bank is now planning to spread the work into two shifts. Even so, it will be weeks before the job is finally completed...
Measuring Up. The actual chore of challenging Nixon in the upcoming primary elections still seems to fall on the square shoulders of California Congressman Paul McCloskey (TIME, April 26). The only prominent Republicans joining McCloskey at the rallies so far have been New York's Charles Goodell, who has cause for carrying a grudge against Nixon since the White House helped knock him out of the Senate last year, and Michigan Congressman Donald Riegle. He is a close friend of both McCloskey and Lowenstein, and the three often socialized in Washington before Lowenstein was defeated for re-election...