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When World War II brought a new impetus to the economy, Houston again began its oil-powered boom, and tiny Bordersville was virtually forgotten. To the dismay of city officials, it was rediscovered just as the cement was drying on the runways of the new airport...
...Crimson sometimes has a box of news which it labels, "The Real World." Perhaps it is being sardonic. Yet the editors should learn some economics. For one day, to their dismay, they will wake up in "the real world" and then what will they say? Will Kistil...
Republican Governor Linwood Holton, 50, who by law cannot succeed himself, has been notably moderate on the issue of race (his own children attend desegregated public schools), much to the dismay of conservative Democrats who in 1969 helped make him the first Republican Governor in the commonwealth since Reconstruction. But this year those same conservative Democrats asked Holton to support as his replacement former Democratic Governor Mills E. Godwin Jr., 58, who defeated Holton in 1965 and is now at blistering odds with the McGovern leftists who have seized his former party. Holton agreed because there were no promising Republican...
...memoirs (My Young Years; Knopf; $10), Rubinstein recalls the moment with gusto and some dismay...
...times, the outrage turns to despair. There is "an almost universal feeling of dismay," says a recently departed Administration official who has returned to the business community. At a Chicago banquet 2½ weeks ago for top executives of companies listed in the FORTUNE 500, the talk about Watergate was reminiscent of an S.D.S. meeting; words like "fascist" and "arrogance of power" were used to describe the atmosphere in the Administration...