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...such as the melancholy textile towns of New England, the played-out coal regions of Appalachia,' and the planemaking centers of the Pacific Coast. The President figures that the Government could rapidly create up to 200,000 jobs in these depressed areas by helping to finance construction and mod ernization of hospitals, roads, sewers and the like. But while these projects can be started quickly, they are also fairly quickly finished-meaning that the jobs they generate will be only temporary...
Although Symington optimistically estimated that his plan would save $8 billion, it was not likely to find many backers either in the Pentagon or on Capitol Hill. Even President Eisenhower's mod erate efforts at service reorganization, approved by Congress in 1958, have yet to be given a thorough trial, and that crusty Democrat, Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has made it clear that he thinks even the Eisenhower efforts...
...subjects as Reza Shah, was an old-style, absolute monarch who rose from noncom to colonel to King, overthrowing Iran's slack-chinned, 130-year-old Qajar dynasty by force of arms. A wiry, hot-tempered martinet, the old Shah set out to manhandle Iran into the mod ern world, and he did not mind machine-gunning obstreperous peasants to do it. He abolished the veil, and when a Moslem imam criticized the Queen for not wearing one, roared up to the mosque in a convoy of armored cars, marched in, and kicked the priest in the stomach...
...established a "little symphony" to play rare music - both ancient and mod ern - extended the symphony's subscription series from 8 to 22 concerts, tripled both the budget and the total season at tendance. The Seattle Symphony now includes 85 musicians, nearly a third of them women; the majority have to hold other, daytime jobs (aircraft engineer, longshoreman, school bus driver) to supplement their $2,000 pay; many teach music. Above all, Katims introduced 75 works never before played in Seattle, e.g., Orff's Carmina Burana, Mahler's monumental Resurrection Symphony, Walton's Belshazzar...
...Cook's activities are space-age. Its Cinefonics division makes documentary films both for Cook and other companies; the Air Mod division reconditions Air Force planes and repairs electronic gear...