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...question froze business construction in the area of Skinner's newsstand prior to his purchase of the property. As a result, he has not been able to enlarge the premises to make the business more profitable, he said...
Last month Governor Deane C. Davis of Vermont could have been speaking for many Governors when he froze education spending in order to raise welfare aid: "If we are to break the cycle of poverty and its resulting human and social costs, we must address ourselves to the treatment of causes rather than symptoms. A high quality of education for every Vermont child is part of the long-range solution. But the tragedy is, a long-term solution is of little help to a child who is hungry, sick or cold this winter. We must have, and we must give...
London's Heathrow Airport was jammed for three days with 10,000 shivering passengers grounded by an icy fog. Stretches of the Danube froze over, trapping countless vessels. Drifts blocked approaches to the world's longest underpass, the Simplon twin railway tunnels between Switzerland and Italy. In France's Rhone Valley, some 15,000 vehicles on auto routes to the Riviera were snowbound in drifts as high as 10 ft. Some motorists were trapped for 72 hours in their cars, and two babies were born in the autos before their mothers could be rescued. Normally punctual French...
...wanted to find black leaders to receive OEO grants in 1968, "they sat back and waited for you to come rolling in with your certified angry militants, your guaranteed frustrated ghetto youth, looking like a bunch of wild men." If the bureaucrats got so shook up that "their eyes froze into iceballs . . . they knew you were the right studs to give the poverty grants and community organizing jobs...
...unexpected source: the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS announced that it was starting a 60-day study that would decide whether to revoke the tax-exempt status of public-interest firms such as those taking corporations to court on pollution and consumer issues. At the same time, the IRS froze applications pending the study's completion. Although corporations routinely deduct legal fees as business expenses, IRS officials suggested that the law firms' tax exemption may wrongly support only one side to a lawsuit in cases where the public interest is unclear. But regardless of the outcome...