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...cities, midday in midweek finds thousands of office workers hungering in the spirit as much as in the body. The foremost respondent to this need is St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church in downtown Sydney, Australia, filled every Wednesday noon to its 1,000-seat capacity, while an overflow crowd of 300 or more watches from an adjoining hall on closed-circuit television. All have come to hear the "Wednesday tonics" of the Rev. Gordon Powell...
...American economy is approaching a choice between free competition and governmental control, Michigan Governor George Romney told an overflow crowd at Carey Cage yesterday afternoon...
...Florida Atlantic University, a state school built amidst the grass-grown runways of an old bomber base in Boca Raton, will take juniors, seniors and graduate students to absorb part of the overflow from Florida's spate of new junior colleges. The latest electronic teaching aids-including closed-circuit television in every room and study cubicle, as well as a computer-controlled library and information-processing operation-are part of its Learning Resources Center...
...lone highway between the two cities is hopelessly jammed. Planes fly often, but fares are high. And the Old Tokaido Line, opened in 1891, is so clogged with a quarter of the nation's passenger and freight traffic that passengers often reserve seats a fortnight ahead, marshaling yards overflow with goods, and maintenance crews repair tracks, with stopwatch timing, between trains only minutes apart...
...early retirement. Another 2,500 executives, who have what one U.S. Steel official calls "good records and good attitudes," have been rooted up from such outposts as Birmingham, Cleveland and Provo, Utah, leaving behind a surfeit of $35,000 to $50,000 homes. Transferred to Pittsburgh, they now overflow the 41-story headquarters into four other downtown buildings. They have been brought together as part of the corporation's effort to slice through its layer cake of supervisors, consolidate its sprawling divisions and end the costly overlapping of its sales offices. The company has united many of its independent...