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...Pawtucket, R.I., the A.F. of L. Teachers' Alliance (to which all but 58 of the city's 520 teachers belong) was out on strike for the second week, demanding a $410 cost-of-living salary boost. With their classrooms technically open (in order to qualify for state financial aid), some students were dutifully checking in at the usual time in the morning, milling around for a bit, and then resuming their unexpected holiday...
Some puzzlers can be answered only by experiment. Golfer Sam Snead obligingly proved that it is possible to drive a golf ball through a Providence-Pawtucket telephone book. An entomologist held a stop watch on a parasol ant, reported its rate of travel as 720 ft. an hour. Chapman, asked whether a wooden keg full of beer would float in sea water, dropped one into New York Harbor, found that it did -just barely...
About this time of year certain elements of the population get sick of basketball, pinball and numbers and want to hear the patter of tiny hoofs along the backstretch. And so the guys and dolls from far and near will congregate today at the Pawtucket oval...
Lincoln Downs is just a small track, on Route 1, just this side of Pawtucket, but one which sports the earliest opening day in New England racetrack history. It doesn't provide very large purses--the coiling is at $2500--and it hasn't the seating capacity of Suffolk or Gansett...