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Governor Evans has created Design for Washington, Inc., to find ways of preventing the inevitable growth from botching up the landscape. An agency called Seattle Metro has been most successful in checking water pollution around Seattle. But Washington's laws on the whole are not yet ready for the boom. Around Bellingham there are no zoning or pollution regulations. Whether or not the coast remains a paradise is, for the moment at least, up to the esthetic sense of industry...
Elected as a reform county prosecutor in 1952, Metro Holovachka was later convicted of tax evasion. Former Gary Mayor George Chacharis was also caught on a tax-evasion charge in 1962 for failure to report $226,686 in kickbacks from contractors doing business with the city. Both could have learned from Chacharis' more astute predecessor. Mayor Peter Mandich, a U.S. attorney told a federal court, "received large amounts of graft payments, but the evidence does not show that he failed to report the payments as income on tax returns." Mandich went free...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). For Two Lovers, MGM built New Zealand in Culver City, cast Shirley MacLaine as a spinster schoolmarm who has this frigidity problem with men - like Laurence Harvey and Jack Hawkins. The result is somewhat Metro-Goldwyn-Maori...
...liberals were elated last weekend by the Senate's passage of Governor Volpe's three per cent limited sales tax. Enactment of the new tax plan, they reasoned, would provide the state with the funds to implement long overdue programs in the areas of education, mental health, welfare, and metro-politan planning. We hope that their enthusiasm was not premature...
...years to persuade Algerians that they were Frenchmen, while in Paris, 200,000 Algerians living in jerry-built Afro-Islamic Harlems were not allowed to be Parisians. For them the dirty work and a diet of boiled cabbage, of terror and reprisal, of po lice chasing Algerians into the Metro and beating them up underground, and of the noise of distant plastic bombs to make it all exciting...