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...same goes for other big archdioceses, such as Chicago, where Msgr. William E. McManus sees "no need for federal aid to Chicago, public or parochial," though he adds that "if it comes, we ought to get the crumb." McManus' schools handle 34% of all Chicago schoolchildren, owe more than $40 million. They stay afloat by central-bank deals and an average annual tuition charge of $25 in grade schools and $225 in high schools. "Come hell or high water," says Msgr. McManus, "we're going to have 125 new classrooms next fall, no matter what they...
...Committee needed 11 roll-call votes before rejecting by a 6-6 vote a motion to reconsider the slate, thus passing it. Salmond claimed that the delegation consisted of Alberg's "flunkies," that the members of the executive committee who voted with Alberg "owe their positions to him," and "there is no doubt in my mind" that a general meeting of the Club would elect Phillips to the delegation...
...space program. A more ambitious approach is to glide the returning space craft down through the atmosphere on red-hot wings and steer it undamaged to a desired landing strip. The Xis is no space craft, but when the first true space craft makes a controlled landing, it will owe a considerable debt to pioneering Major Robert White and his hot-nosed little airplane...
...Germans said that they would be willing to help out by making early repayment of $787 million they owe the U.S., provided that the U.S. take $187 million off that amount as credit for the estimated value of German assets seized by the U.S. in World War II. They would also agree to prepay about $350 million on current U.S. arms contracts and boost Germany's share of NATO housekeeping costs by $18 million. On paper, the total contribution came to about $1 billion, but practically all of it was money the U.S. was going to get anyway...
...year or so with a less propagandistic daily printed in the $4,500,000 printing plant that the East Germans have promised to build for him near Accra. In undisguised anguish, the Times and News printed appeals to their declining readership. "Don't ever forget the debt you owe to this gallant paper," implored the News. "To forget it is to betray yourself and Africa. Read the valiant Evening News and keep yourself in perfect tune with the spirit of militant fighting Africa." But there was no evidence that anyone was listening-least of all the Osagyefo...