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...would link up other northern suburbs but do nothing for the town itself, seems to La Canadans little more than a ruse to collect $60 million in federal grants. The highway department claims that the projected-population figures for La Canada by 1980 necessitate the freeway. Planning Consultant Lyle Stewart retorts: "This area is built up with single-family units. The only way the population could increase is with multiple units, and the only thing that will bring them in here is a freeway. It's a chicken v. egg proposition." As it stands now, the highway department will...
...have spent some time studying these phenomena. I have written two books on the subject, the first, Flying Saucers, was published by the Harvard University Press in 1953. The second, The World of Flying Saucers, with Lyle Boyd as co-author and published by Doubleday, came out just last year...
...white creatures spit bullets in Mr. Charlie's small Southern town. Baldwin's battle of the races pits Lyle Britten (Rip Torn), a poor-white grocery-store keeper, against Richard Henry (Al Freeman Jr.), an ex-dope addict recently returned from New York and the son of the local Negro pastor. Both men are deformed spirits, the white envenomed by poverty, the Negro by hatred of his father and his father's compromises with oppression. Arrogant, mocking, indefensible in his behavior, Henry humiliates Britten in front of Britten's wife. The white man demands an apology...
Knisper, Knasper, Knusper. Like the late Will Kellogg, the company's officers and directors look upon cereal selling as a solemn mission. President and Chair man Lyle Roll, 56, a onetime door-to-door Kellogg's salesman, eats at least two bowls of cereal a day (morning and before bed), and sometimes a third when he drops in on the daily taste testing conducted by company executives. Nowadays, Roll's time is taken up largely by Kellogg's rapidly expanding international sales, which account for about 30% of its total volume. "Our future," says Roll...
Irresponsibility has far from disappeared from the present volume, however. Inexcusably, Lyle Stuart has publicized the book in huge New York Times advertisements as the "real truth about Latin America" which can be told at last. It may sell almost as well as The Shark and the Sardines...