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...levy will generate an additional $320 million in federal, state and local funds over the next four years, and for the first time in years, thanks to a federal grant, Cleveland will have an unpolluted municipal beach. Not everything, to be sure, is perfect: voters have hiked police and firemen's salaries, putting even greater pressure on Stokes to push through a boost in the city income tax from ½% to 1%. Admitting many mistakes since he took office, Stokes nevertheless can now say proudly: "We've come a long, long way. One thing...
...Humor woman. In Europe, women have turned into bricklayers, painters, welders, cabinetmakers, watch repairmen, goldsmiths, pharmacists, chimney sweeps and even traveling saleswomen. No less than 85% of Finland's dentists are female, and so are a quarter of the physicians. In both Japan and France, there are women firemen. Norway, like the U.S. and other countries, has hired femailmen to carry letters, and around the world the gentler sex is tending bar, driving forklift trucks, giving golf lessons, servicing automobiles and running heavy machinery in factories...
...much of Newark's Central Ward was a tinderbox waiting for the torch -and in the incendiary aftermath of the assassination, dozens of blazes were set by arsonists. They might have done much worse damage, except that - in contrast with last summer - black slum dwellers raced to help firemen, not hin der them. The major reason was that black militants such as Playwright Le-Roi Jones had reached a grudging armistice with the city's white authorities (TIME, April 26) and passed the word down to the streets: Cool...
...Hiring more blacks as policemen, firemen, and other city workers, and giving promotions to those already employed by the city...
...flames. "See that kid run in there with that fire bomb?" one said. The other nodded. Within seconds, two fire trucks had begun heaving water. One of them hoisted a ladder with a hose attached over the flames and water poured down on them like a waterfall. Firemen moved to the three-story tenement next door; it was in danger of going up next. They carried out three children and helped five or six adults to safety. Everyone stood on the sidewalk and watched the fire, which was bright orange and hot because it was a paint store...