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Professional educators helped with the curriculum; Rexall chipped in its mimeographing services. Soon the classes, dubbed "Community Science Workshops," outgrew Slaton's house, moved into churches and the California Museum of Science and Industry...
...workers. In 1962 it conducted 250 plant site studies in the U.S. and Europe that resulted in ground breaking for 70 new plants worth $100 million. Last month it submitted a report to the British recommending a new site for the historic Covent Garden produce market, which long ago outgrew its location among London's congested streets...
Some states have already reapportioned with a minimum of confusion. Arizona laid out three congressional districts 14 years ago against the day the state outgrew its present two. This year, the Arizona legislature merely put the 1947 plan into effect, ignored the fact that the First District (Phoenix) has four times the population of the eight northern and eastern counties that comprise the new District Two. Maine, down from three Republican seats to two, simply split the state, left Incumbents Stanley Tupper and Peter A. Garland the problem of facing one another in the state's First District...
Behind the Wall. In time Barnes assembled the world's greatest collection of Matisses, the largest group of Cezannes outside the Louvre, and over $50 million worth of art by Picasso, Braque, Gauguin, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe and Ben Shahn. When his collection outgrew his home and factory, Barnes built a marble temple to house it in suburban Merion, surrounded the place with ferocious police dogs and a ten-foot "spite wall." Ostensibly the collection was a public institution, entitled to tax exemption, but the tiny part of the public that...
...mainly of Promoter Nat Winecoff, who cut his teeth at Disneyland, now humbly admits: "I guess the Lord just took me by the hand." The idea was originally suggested by a Roman Catholic priest who wanted an adjunct for his parish church, roughly in the $75,000 range. Winecoff outgrew the parish quickly. With private financing from such angels as Comedian Jack Haley and Donald F. Duncan, the parking-meter and Yo-Yo king, the project has now reached the $15 million stage. Promises Angel Haley: "Bible Storyland is not going to offend the sensibilities of any faith...