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They laughed when Indiana Senator Richard Lugar suggested during last winter's coal strike that Americans take a lesson from Depression farmers and burn corn on the cob. But not everyone rejected his idea as farfetched. For the past two months, the Logansport, Ind., Municipal Utilities Group has been...
Under a bright winter sun, twelve victims of a brutal massacre in eastern Rhodesia were buried last week in graves shadowed by the jacaranda trees of Umtali municipal cemetery. The victims were either white missionaries or the relatives of missionaries, and they included three small children and a three-week...
At least six states-New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan and Massachusetts-have found it necessary to ban housing discrimination against families with children. In most states, though, a landlord can legally evict a tenant for the "crime" of childbearing. At least that is what happened in California to...
Voters in the normally progressive Chicago suburb of Evanston rolled up a 2-to-1 margin against a property-tax increase aimed at providing an extra $2.5 million for elementary schools, which are already running a $700,000 deficit. In Ohio, Republican Governor Jim Rhodes vowed that no school in...
Of all the services to be eliminated or reduced, the closing of the Municipal Plunge, used almost entirely by the black community (10% of the city), may cause the most trouble. It is the only source of relief from the summer heat for most of the blacks in town. Says...