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Shevlin, a junior, is one of the legion of high school stars--he played for Wakefield High (Mass.) High--who disappear into the morass of college football and are never heard from again...
Industry's Return. Cavanagh showed equal vigor and imagination in tackling Detroit's other problems, which were legion. To pump revenues into the nearly bankrupt city treasury, he introduced a 1% income tax that adds $42 million annually to city revenues. With added funds generated by the current auto boom, Cavanagh has wiped out the $34.5 million deficit he inherited, put the city budget in the black, cut property taxes, and halved a tax on industrial machinery...
...probably too late for Dirksen's purposes. Unable to get an approving vote from the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was forced to a crippling admission of weakness by presenting his proposal to the Senate in the form of a substitute for a resolution providing for a "National American Legion Baseball Week...
...Fifth Avenue led by an old West Point friend. Clifton tore up the resignation, stayed in the Army for 29 more years. In Italy, during World War II, Artilleryman Clifton's huge 240-mm. howitzers plastered Cassino with 250,000 shells in 120 days, and Clifton won the Legion of Merit for knocking out Cassino's main supply bridge, which had survived 1,200 air sorties. After the war, Clifton turned to Army public relations, was a top aide for Chief of Staff General Omar Bradley...
...British Director John Schlesinger (Billy Liar) begins with a standard narrative device: a celebrated beauty spilling "My Story" to a magazine called Ideal Woman. Her name is Diana (Julie Christie), a sometime model, sometime bit actress, anytime trollop, whose face is her passport to the haut rnonde, where a legion of intimates come to know her as "Darling...