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...less remarkable than the fact that West Virginia, a small, poor state, could build the center was the way it was financed. When the center was proposed a decade ago, university spokesmen told the legislature they did not want it unless both building and operating costs could be separately financed and guaranteed. It must not, they insisted, be dependent on the legislature's appropriation whims. Then-Governor Okey L. Patteson pushed through a penny-a-bottle "pop tax." Every man, woman and child in the state who has gulped down a soft drink since July...
...private settlement houses for slum dwellers that have stirred Italy's conscience, believes that Sicily should import a team of U.S.-trained sociologists to study the roots of Sicily's distress so that economic aid might be made more effective. Most of Sicily's own spokesmen simply call for that standard 20th century nostrum: rapid industrial development of the island...
These two men of towering stature, chiefs of states that have been ancient enemies, were constructing a new and united Europe. The communique was noncommittal, but spokesmen of both sides talked like men who could barely suppress their excitement. The French spokesman talked of decisions on "the new political construction of Europe," revealed that among the decisions was a plan for regular meetings of the heads of government of all six Common Market countries to formulate a common foreign policy, consult on other integrated programs...
Nightly Visitors. But as South Viet Nam faced the new Communist assault, Western observers were uneasy at Diem's failure to win enthusiastic support for his regime. The dissatisfaction is not organized, and it has no outstanding spokesmen. It takes the form of grumbling and snide criticism around Saigon's café tables, a sense of apathy among the peasants. Much of it centers on the character of Diem himself...
...Spokesmen for both osteopathy and orthodox medicine hoped that by raising osteopathic teaching standards the grants might eventually promote the muchdiscussed, long-stalled rapprochement between the two healing arts...