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...those whom he termed the "suffering children of the world." As Attorney General, his brusqueness often offended high-level politicians and bureaucrats-yet he was ever ready to stand on his desk for half an hour to explain the workings of the Justice Department to a swarm of schoolchildren, whom he always addressed as important, interesting people...
...cost housing units. It is to revive Cleveland's long-stalled urban-renewal program (the nation's largest, with 6,060 acres involved and nothing completed), and set up expanded health and welfare facilities. So enthusiastic are residents about its prospects that 450,000 people have contributed-schoolchildren, factory workers, businessmen and a retired English professor who donated $1,000,000 worth of stocks. Together they oversubscribed the $11.7 million private portion of the fund; Washington started payments on its $143 million share...
...used to." Battling wing ice and frozen gas lines instead of flak, pilots flew more than 1,000 mercy sorties. When an Air Force C-141 dropped 1,300 gal. of fuel oil and a team of paracommandos on Arizona's Tuba City (pop. 2,000), schoolchildren braved 10°-below-zero temperatures-to get the parachutists' autographs...
...mere $1,950,000. The museum's annual acquisitions fund is only $65,000, but the Basel city government voted to contribute $1,372,000, provided that the remaining $578,000 could be raised from private sources. Dozens of townsfolk pitched in to raise the money, schoolchildren canvassed the streets, artists offered paintings and pottery for sale at a street fair, and the city's chemical industry, one of the biggest and richest in Europe, came to the rescue with a generous donation...
...rippled all through California's multimillion agricultural empire. Late fruits reached canneries at the same time as on-schedule tomatoes, causing so much of a jam that a great deal of fruit spoiled while it was waiting to be canned. Farmers, with their orchards maturing late, had no schoolchildren available to help harvest the crops, and the supply of temporary Mexican labor has been reduced since the law covering the use of braceros was tightened three years ago. Governor Reagan angered unions by permitting convicts to help with the harvest...