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...Association of Railroad Passengers has been unable to interest any governmental unit in a proposal to scrape up $17.4 million to improve passenger service to the city's suburbs. Yet the Federal Government is spending $53.5 million to build slightly more than a mile of road just south of the city. The Government recently laid out $110 million to open a new six-lane segment of Interstate 95, which parallels an existing four-lane highway between Washington and Baltimore...
...precious few hours of sleep. "Leaving that early won't be helpful," said Gambril in an example of classic understatement, Co-captain Paul Horvitz could only say "Zzzzzzzz....", while his teammates's reactions varied from apathy to outright anger. Perhaps next year the Athletic Department bureaucracy can scrape up enough money for an overnight, but the team's chances against Yale this year will not be helped by this faux...
...Cronin's as a first step in a projected drive to organize waitresses at other Square restaurants. Waiting on tables is all too often considered as a demeaning job reserved for women. The low salaries ensure that waitresses must--in the words of waitress organizer Patricia Welch--"bow, scrape and kiss...
Owsley County in eastern Kentucky is one of the nation's poorest. Its 5,023 people scrape by on a per capita income of $500 a year, mostly from tobacco or moonshining. Unemployment runs at 24%. No trains or buses stop in Booneville, the county seat, and the people are largely left alone in their poverty. Then, in November, Frank Ashley of the Louisville Courier-Journal came to town...
...Germany. Drugs have been a nagging problem in the major cities. Sweden is a tightly structured society, and some Americans have found it as difficult to conform to the Scandinavian brand of red tape as to military life. Then, too, they are often disappointed to find they can only scrape up menial jobs. As one ex-serviceman growled in a television interview: "I didn't come to Sweden to wash dishes...