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...potholes; about 10,000 of them pit Wellston's 44 miles of streets. When former Police Chief Max Downard burst a tire in a particularly jagged chasm, he jokingly proposed to Mayor Harold Souders that the town sell its potholes to help raise the $70,000 needed to repair last winter's wear and tear. After the suggestion was reported in the paper, says Souders, "a woman walked in with a check for two potholes." Then another woman came in, and then another. With that, the town went into business. For $10 per hole (or $25 for three...
...been impoverished by his greed and mismanagement. The economy is nearly bankrupt, 50% of the labor force is unemployed, and most of the islanders live at subsistence level. Last week Bishop's government was planning to establish farming cooperatives and to seek foreign aid in an attempt to repair the damage...
...both to discredit the Chinese and to bolster morale at home during Viet Nam's mobilization campaign. Hanoi radio announced that many children and elderly people had been evacuated from the capital, and that those unable to take part in the rifle drills must study first aid or repair damaged houses...
...National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC), pressed a button that was supposed to start crude oil flowing into the hold of a waiting supertanker, nothing happened. After 68 days of no petroleum exports at all, Iran had to wait another five minutes while technicians hurried to locate and repair an electrical malfunction in the pumping equipment. For the assembled crowd of government officials and oil workers, the delay was an embarrassment. For the oil-thirsty nations of the world, it merely emphasized the perils of counting on anything to go as planned in Iran these days...
...find public broadcasting's financial, organizational and creative structure fundamentally flawed. Institutional pressures became unbalanced in a dramatically short time. They remain today--despite the best efforts of thousands within the industry and the millions who support it--out of kilter and badly in need of repair...