Word: pennsylvania
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...William Penn. Another original Bicentennial play, but this one never even gets to America. It's about William Penn's problems in England, where he underwent a trial for his Quakerism. In the end, his father gives him Pennsylvania, where he will go to find religious freedom and live happily ever after. At Old West Church, 131 Cambridge St.in Boston. Tonight and Thurs., Fri., and Sat.nights through August at 8 p.m. Reservations necessary...
...Missouri and Congressmen John Brademas of Indiana, Paul Sarbanes of Maryland and Benjamin Rosenthal of New York. Only Brademas and Sarbanes are of Greek extraction (there are only three other Greek Americans in Congress: Representatives Louis "Skip" Bafalis of Florida, Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts and Gus Yatron of Pennsylvania). None of them consider themselves part of a Greek lobby. "We prefer to think of ourselves as the rule-of-law lobby," says Brademas, whose 475,000 constituents include only about 450 Greek Americans. Explains Sarbanes: "We have simply sought to enforce a provision of the existing...
...York's problems are a memento mori to other state and local governments. Last week neighboring New Jersey and Pennsylvania were suffering through difficulties that, though less acute than New York's, reflected common themes-an inability to compromise, a breakdown in the eleventh-hour bargaining that used to work when governments, unions and taxpayers came to the brink. On a more fundamental level, the problems suggested that states and cities are more and more coming up against very hard choices: What public services must be dispensed with or cut back if there is simply not the money...
...Pennsylvania, more than 50,000 state workers, including prison guards, welfare department employees, transportation workers, hospital orderlies and nurses, went out on strike after reaching an impasse on their demands for a 10% salary increase on top of other automatic raises as high as 5.5%. It was the first statewide public employees' strike in Pennsylvania's history. Finally, they settled for a two-year package giving them a total 12% increase...
...Liners. Forestry officials estimate that Jones' experiments with various trees have sped the reforestation of Pennsylvania's spoil banks by at least 50 years, an achievement that has earned him a roomful of conservation and forestry awards. He shares his findings with anybody who wants them. Every year about 2,000 visitors-university agronomists, Government foresters and ordinary citizens-come to see his farm and meet the adman turned agrarian...