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Still, many items on the wish lists are hardly luxuries. Oregon City is asking for a new fire engine ($120,000), an air-operated rescue tool to help fire fighters pry open mangled or burning automobiles ($7,000), a hydrocarbon meter to detect the presence of explosive gases ($1,200) and a string of 40 new light poles for Main Street ($18,000 each). In its catalogue, Anaheim says it needs money even to equip centers for senior citizens and the handicapped. Reaching higher than most, the city of Reno asks for an entire $5 million community center. That item...
...manner of an experienced mechanic who senses that a problem is not entirely solved even though a test meter's needle may indicate otherwise, auto executives look warily at the figures and fear that any rebound in interest rates could brake the sales rise. Cautions Robert Stempel, Chevrolet Division general manager and a GM vice president: "The market is very volatile. We're going to have to keep everything in perspective...
...Leeshock (P), 1:08. 92:2. Quinn(P). 1:09.26:3. Wilson(H). 1:12.66. 200 Buterfly--1 Bizal (P) 2:10.03:2. Johnson (P)2:10.82:3. Zimic(H)2:27,53. 50 Freestyle--1. Tompkins(P).24:42,2, Smith (H), 25,23: Maximo (P),25.49. One-Meter Diving--1. Jones (P), 250,75:2 Goldberg (H), 231.70:3, Clark (P), 230:30. 100Freestyle--1. Tompkins (P) 52.93:2. Biazal (P), 54.82:3. Black (H). 56.03. 200 Bresststroke--1. Beauchamp (P), 2:30.83:2. Lines (P), 2:32.12:3. Rival(H), 2:35.15. 500 Freestyle--1 Floyd...
...Phoenix. The church, which grew at a phenomenal rate in the U.S. and abroad, was based on ideas in a bestseller titled Dianetics that Hubbard wrote in 1950. The aim of dianetics is to rid a person of restricting engrams. The technique involves the use of an "E-meter," which was patented by Hubbard. To use the "meter, a person holds a tin can in each hand while a galvanometer wired to the cans ostensibly indicates emotional stress. While the subject is "on the cans," a Scientologist "auditor" quizzes him to uncover any embarrassing or painful experiences in his past...
...nation and he is going to shine even more in that event if he can concentrate on it," Bernal said, "We're going to let him loose on it and let him beat Tony Corbisiero [the Columbia senior who currently holds the American record in the 800 meter froa] at Easterns...