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...both public and insurance companies, the uninsured motorist has long been a troublemaker. Not only does he often drive an old car in rundown condition, he also has little or no cash to pay for the damage he does. As a result, the pressure has been building up in state after state for compulsory liability insurance, now common in Europe but so far adopted in only one U.S. state (Massachusetts). The insurance industry vigorously opposes the idea for fear of political rate-setting and excessive losses from bad-risk drivers...
...Topp, molesworth is an old lag at st custard's, and he finds it easy pappy if you can stand the pi-jaw (magisterial yatata). In case it all gets too much, nigel offers the molesworth daydream service ("Are you fatigued? Bored, rundown . . .? Help yourself to a MOLESWORTH DAYDREAM. Simple, easy to operate. No gadgets . . ."). Best among the catalogue of daydreams offered is the one in which the whole school is swept away by the grate st custard's flood, but molesworth and prudence entwhistle, the beautiful under-matron, survive in a rowboat ("how peaceful it is upon...
...speaker. He hit his professional stride as a high-school principal in St. Johns, Mich. (pop. 5,000) and, as a sideline, became a successful speaker at Rotary Club luncheons. While on Rotary's wheel, Herold Christian Hunt swung over to a better job as superintendent of the rundown schools of Kalamazoo. After three years of cleaning up Kalamazoo, he was well established as an able mender of corrupt school systems. He rehabilitated the schools of New Rochelle, N.Y., Kansas City, Mo. and Chicago. After six years of rebuilding Chicago's moldering. politics-ridden schools, he abruptly abandoned...
...wife who emigrate to Canada just before World War II. (Author Lewis, born in Maine when his globe-trotting parents took a cruise to the U.S., himself came to North America in World War II, stayed six years.) The book gives a shattering account of life in a rundown, chaotic, Cana dian hotel room during the convulsions of wartime. The real theme of Self Condemned is a blow-by-blow account of how a proud, independent man loses his integrity and makes a peace-without-honor with a way of life he despises. Professor Rene Harding leaves Britain because...
...information showing that only 6% of the 3,200-mile Laredo-to-Panama stretch is still missing. Work is going ahead on two of the three main gaps, and Vice President Richard Nixon has called for a new U.S. effort to get the road done. The country-by-country rundown...