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Bloomington, Ind...
Chris Papagianis? Kicking field goals for Notre Dame? You've got to be kidding. But improbable as it seems, this fairytale scenario might have come true, if Harvard's exciting and flamboyant All-Ivy soccer forward had accepted a lucrative scholarship and taken his talents to South Bend, Ind...
...hosannas sung to it in The Music Man, Gary, Ind., is not one of those garden spots that perennially win community-service awards. Indeed, it is in some aspects the very model of modern urban decay. Founded in 1906 by Industrialist Elbert H. Gary (who judiciously chose not to live there), it sits like an ash heap in the northwest corner of Indiana, a grimy, barren steel town. The sons and daughters of the Poles and Slovaks and Croats, who for generations have worked the foundries, form a decided white minority. Most of the blacks, who make up the town...
...Mayor Jerry Hancock of Mitchell, Ind...
...will go to states, the rest to communities. They can spend it as they like. Funds will be doled out on the basis of an exquisitely complicated formula based on population, tax collections, and per capita income. The formula will result in some quirky distribution. Mayor Hancock of Mitchell, Ind., which will receive about $17,000, thinks that his town of 4,000 residents is being so scandalously shortchanged that he is threatening not to accept the money. Big cities and generally poorer small communities and Southern states will get proportionally more than well-heeled towns and suburbs...