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...illegal to transport lottery tickets across a state line. Powers' solution was not to issue tickets at all. Purchasers had to go to one of the state's two race tracks or 49 liquor stores, where, on payment of $3, a clerk activated a machine which exposed a ticket on which the bettor wrote his name and address. The machine thereupon swallowed the ticket and issued him an "acknowledgement," which presumably may be transported anywhere, sent through the mail, or even thrown away. The rolls of tickets were collected from the machines, microfilmed and stored in a bank...
...Prompt Payment. Capitalists have no quarrel with the way Russians pay their bills: on time and in hard currency. The reason, of course, is that the Russians want to encourage even more capital ists to do business with them. Last week a Soviet trade delegation arrived in Stockholm to see if anyone wanted to build another pulp mill. And Soviet officials stirred new interest among British businessmen by announcing that they had the go-ahead to negotiate for eleven more chemical and fertilizer plants worth about $280 million...
Selling pews was drummed out of most Protestant churches long ago; yet Gilead Baptist Church in Detroit recently inaugurated a $1.20 weekly payment by each member for the "space" he takes in church. Bazaars are under fire: the Rev. Eugene Carper, director of research and strategy for the Massachusetts Council of Churches, thinks that bazaar workers should do some thing more beneficial for the spiritual life of the church, like visiting the sick and the aged in hospitals. But in May the Congregational church in wealthy Winnetka, a Chicago suburb, held a rummage sale that raised $40,000 from donated...
...this just a bluff? U Thant spent two days urging Nikita to make at least a token payment, but emerged emptyhanded. "I did not get the impression that the Soviet Union is prepared to change its policy in this matter," he told a press conference in Moscow. The mild-mannered little Burmese-often criticized for excessive flexibility-could have left it at that. But to everyone's astonishment, the Secretary-General took his case straight to the Russian people...
Boston is also the only major city that has refused to take advantage of President Kennedy's Emergency Food Distribution Program. Under this plan needy persons receive assistance from the Government with only a token payment. With the refusal of local authorities to cooperate with either program "kids get it in the neck twice," Mayer said. But Mayer claimed that both programs could be set up effectively within a few months. "I see no reason," he said, "why Boston school-children couldn't have some kind of lunch program by September...