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...first U.S. experiment in metropolitan-area government was test-launched in Florida's Dade County 16 months ago, when voters okayed a single "Metro" charter for Miami (pop. 290,000) and 25 satellite municipalities (see map). Urban experts and harassed civic leaders in other states looked up from desperate struggles with their common problem-how to develop unified plans and services throughout a central city and its independent suburbs-to pray for Metro's success. Foreign specialists came to study Metro as they once studied TVA. But, with no politicians to defend it, the new idea became...
Division of Power. The original Metro charter converted Dade County's governmental machinery into a major municipal authority. It aimed at developing such city-type services as water supply, sewage disposal, zoning, housing codes, traffic planning-which demand area-wide coordination. It left to each of the 26 municipalities such functions as beat-walking police and garbage collection. Experience alone would show how some jobs, such as police detection work, could be best divided...
...days I walked and rode around Moscow from stem to stern, down into the Metro (there are now nearly 70 stations), out into the parks, up into the private apartments of old friends-engineers, professional people, several Russian journalists. There was no case when anyone I tried to see refused to see me. This is remarkable. Most of those I saw, including party members, were quite willing to talk about anything at all, including concentration camps, the secret police and other things which in prewar days were never even mentioned...
...good news flashed through Madison, Ind. (pop. 10,500) like summer heat lightning. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was coming to town to shoot a $2,500,000 production of James Jones's bad bestselling novel, Some Came Running. Local businessmen came running with promises not to raise prices; local police pitched in to protect M-G-M props; the country club and five hotels and motels were turned over to the movie folk. Nothing so exciting had happened to the green, hilly little Ohio River town since P. T. Barnum brought Jenny Lind to sing in the Pork Palace...
...Frank ("Lover Boy") Sinatra, the picture's hero, lounged into town trailed by a variegated crew of camp followers that included Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, a couple of casual redheads, and a court jester named Mack ("Killer") Gray. Less than a day later, love began to die between Metro and Madison...