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Stepovich's Alaska faces problems that will only become more intense with statehood. Once federal supervision and federal dollars are removed, Alaskans, who now pay a territorial income tax equal to 14% of their federal tax, will have to dig even deeper to pay increased costs of self-government. They are already strapped by what they call F.C.L.-fearful cost of living. Virtually everything Alaska uses is brought in by steamer and airplane, and because the territory produces so little for ships and planes to haul profitably back to the States, the freight charges boost retail prices to alarming...
Executive mouth is not limited to jobs with tension, says Dr. Lynch; even manual laborers with a strong drive to succeed may take their troubles out on their teeth. The executive-mouth victim might conceivably "be a ditchdigger who gets frustrated because he wants to dig better ditches, and somehow...
Both Abbey and Sallie would some day like to fill out their careers with acting roles in the movies or on television. But in the meantime, they plan to go on pushing Topic A with unfettered enthusiasm. Says Abbey demurely: "I like the idea of men. I dig men.'' Says Sallie of one of her current crushes: "He's cute as a button; he's one of those people you want to walk...
...friends and associates about his private life as far back as 1926. Beynon testified that the inquisitor asked his friends such questions as "I'd like to know how Mr. Beynon made his money." Williams also checked police records on Beynon, but all he could dig up was a traffic violation. Explained Williams: "It's normal business practice for me to find out all I can about the man I'm dealing with." Yet he admitted that Freeport had never before hired a private eye to track...
...Southern Highlands. The site was discovered in 1951 by a Johannesburg school principal, but not much was done about it until last summer when Dr. Howell arrived with a small expedition (his wife and two graduate students) and hired 35 natives at $1.50 a week to dig...