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Because the Federal Government matches highway funds by 92% to 8%, the shortage at the state level could eventually cost Idaho $5,000,000, or ten miles of interstate highway. But there is still Lake Bowl. Though Turner's restaurant was closed upon seizure, the alley is yielding a 6 1/2? profit to a special state trust fund for every line bowled. At that rate, it will take 7,451,-182 lines of bowling to recoup the loss -about ten lines each for every man, woman and child in Idaho, or almost 18 years of around-the-clock play...
Automobile manufacturers have long seemed convinced that it did not pay for them to pay more attention to safety, because the public did not want to bear the cost. Increasingly, however, the automakers are finding that soft-pedaling safety can cost them quite a bit too. General Motors learned that lesson with its Corvair line, which it dropped last week (see BUSINESS). Recent court decisions in four states against all four major automakers suggest that any car that fails to measure up to reasonable safety standards may prove highly expensive in terms of damages. Each of the cases involved...
...highly publicized five-year warranty should be controlling. Not persuaded, the court added Alaska to a growing list of states that now make manufacturers strictly liable for any defect that ought not to exist-warranties not withstanding. The object, said Justice Buell Nesbett, "is to ensure that the cost of injuries resulting from defective products are borne by the manufacturers rather than by the injured persons, who are powerless to protect themselves...
After two matches as a sophomore, he ousted captain Bernie Adelsberg from he number-one spot on the varsity, and despite a lingering cold which cost him six matches, kept it throughout his junior season, capturing the New England singles title in the process...
...EIBL, and Yale trails the Indians and Cornell with a 4-2-1 record. In retrospect, Harvard could be a contestant for the league title if it weren't for two bad first innings. Two home runs in the first against Army and a seven-run explosion at Brown cost the Crimson the league race...