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When city officials speak of the country as "wasting away," they are not punning. Waste-the uncontrolled proliferation of garbage, trash and scrap-is threatening to bury many U.S. cities. A serious problem for nearly all, it may soon become a crisis for many...
...Basil said he would consider selling them to another line so long as they did not compete with Cunard, also mentioned proposals for mooring the Queen Mary as an offshore "hotel" at Gibraltar or Los Angeles. Otherwise, the ships figure to be worth $1,800,000 each as scrap...
...intangibles, Challenge has tried to keep its style informal. A biannual comment about a grade replaces a conventional report card. Classes are small and discipline tends to be lax. Teachers often change around their lesson plans. If students bring in an interesting magazine article, most Challenge teachers would scrap their class outline...
...Senate last week passed the Ribicoff proposal, and a sub-committee of the House Education and Labor Committee is considering it now. The House should scrap the tax credit in favor of more federal scholarships and loans...
...another took the House of Commons floor to denounce the way BOAC is being run. What particularly rankled the critics was the airline's reliance on U.S. made Boeing planes instead of British aircraft. Indeed, one of Sir Giles's first decisions on taking command was to scrap an existing BOAC order for 30 Vickers Super VC10 passenger jets for the simple reason that Boeing 707s are more economical. Since Vickers was having trouble selling its plane to any non-British airline, the move provoked an angry outcry; in 1964 the government ordered BOAC...