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Cutting Back on Books. Midwestern cities are also finding it harder than ever to get financial support for public schools at the polls. Last November, Cincinnati voters refused to accept a 50% increase in their real estate taxes to cover school operating costs that have risen by more than $2,000,000 a year. Six months ago, Minneapolis voters defeated a proposed $16 million increase in their real estate taxes to cover a boost in the budget. As a result, the board of education was forced to cut back expenditures for new books, educational films, teachers' sabbaticals...
...fewer than 9,000 people went aloft as passengers on scheduled airlines (compared with 109 million last year). Between accepting medals, he flew the Spirit of St. Louis to every state in the Union, pleading the future of aviation in a high, reedy Midwestern voice. Though he turned down million-dollar contracts for movies and cigarette endorsements, he accepted offers from Pan Am and Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. (later TWA), to become a consultant. Stock options made him a millionaire almost overnight. The Minnesota farm boy and barnstorming pilot moved more and more in the ambiance of the very rich...
...sullen spring skies over four Midwestern states last week came a succession of killer tornadoes. The twist ers hit Illinois, Missouri, Michigan and Indiana. Scattering cars and buses like playthings, reducing office buildings and whole residential sections to rubble, the tornadoes' lash took more than 50 lives, injured 1,500, and destroyed up to $50 million worth of property...
Conroy and seven Midwestern educators were killed March 23 when their plane, flying through a storm, crashed into the side of a mountain 20 miles north of Da Nang. They had almost completed a year-long study of Vietnamese universities and teacher training for the Agency for International Development. Conroy had taken on the job of writing their report...
...problems will disappear if all men get the message: Change yourselves. Clean up your dirty characters. Be absolutely moral, live with love and purity and unselfishness and honesty and the world will be good. It is all very nice, and very simple for 18-year-old Midwestern minds...