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...itself upon every government official who must shape a budget, from President Nixon down to the head of the smallest local mosquito-abatement district. By most measures of private wealth, the U.S. is the world's richest country. But in terms of its ability to pay for the public services???health care, education, welfare, garbage pickup, pollution control, police and fire protection?that make the life of its citizens pleasant, or at least tolerable, or in some cases even possible, the country seems almost to be going broke...
After six years of childless marriage, John and Cynthia Burke of Newark decided to adopt a baby boy through a state agency. Since the Burkes were young, scandal-free and solvent, they had no trouble with the New Jersey Bureau of Children's Services???until investigators came to the line on the application that asked for the couple's religious affiliation...
From service in the Navy I know how false are many of the accusations which are leveled at officials of the military and civil services??? accusations which obviously cannot be officially refuted...
...last week, inauguration of the following recently completed public works: new "Palace of Justice" in Messina, Sicily (cost some 20.000.000 lire); new Ministry of Marine and Ministry of Education buildings in Rome; new "Port of Rome" at Civita Vecchia (45 miles from the Capital); and two new commercial air services???respectively Rome-Syracuse-Tripoli and Rome- Genoa-Marseilles-Barcelona-Las Palmas, both routes served by 2,000 h.p. four-motored German super-Wahl seaplanes...