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...central issue, however, is Boston's abnormally small tax base, and the resultingly high tax rate. Of the twenty largest U.S. cities, Boston is the only one which relies solely on real estate taxation to provide operating funds each year. And the large amount of tax-free property within the city itself--Boston College, Boston University, Simmons College, several large hospitals, numerous churches--imposes an additional burden...
...hear them talk, the four nations gathered at Vaduz last week had the sort of grievances that often lead to war. One of them, with a swollen population of 25,000 to the half square mile, desperately needs Lebensraum. Another has the largest number of Communists per capita in Western Europe, and civil strife is frequent. A third has constant border troubles with its neighbors, who seek to change the nation's traditional way of life...
Last year the University produced five Rhodes Scholars, two Marshall Scholars, and 16 recipients of Fulbright grants. A vast majority of the Fulbright applicants desired study in England, but the largest number of winners, four, picked Germany...
When the new High Dam at Aswam, Egypt, is finished in about eight years, it will create one of the largest artificial lakes in the world--over 200 miles long. Lost beneath the waters will be the whole of pre-historic Nubia, according to Brew. Archaeological remains from paleolithic Nubria, pre-dynastic and dynastic Egypt, and Greco-Roman culture are in the threatened area...
...small agency for eleven years, handled the business details and helped kook up the campaigns. For one of their first accounts, Oregon's Blitz-Weinhard brewery, they placed an ad in The New Yorker that read: "Keep Times Square Green! A modest reforestation proposal from Oregon's largest and only brewery as a fitting prelude to Oregon's glorious 1959 centennial celebration. Just picture what reforestation will do for Times Square! Cool and green, teeming with game, salmon swimming up Pepsi Cola sign to spawn...