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Automatic Toll-Taker. New Jersey's Garden State Parkway is using a robot toll-taker that collects fares directly from motorists, corrects improper payments, sounds an alarm if a motorist fails to ante up properly, and has a camera that snaps a picture of the rear license plate if a car tries to get by without paying the toll...
...principals are working for the state as judge and chief inspector at the Tampa greyhound race track; another teacher gets $9 a day from the state at the track as assistant auditor. The track itself is employing five more principals and two more teachers for such jobs as bet-taker and gatekeeper. Thundered the indignant Tribune: "In their private lives, they [principals and teachers] must conduct themselves so as to set an example for youth. A race track is essentially a gambling place . . . Some tracks in the past have fallen under control of known racketeers and their associates." Retorted...
...never seen so many women in my life," grumbled a veteran Boston Garden ticket taker as he watched a mass of sequinned bonnets and pink corsages seething through the entrance gates. Pushing a long blue feather out of his eye, he gazed at a red and white "Liberace" placard plastered over the announcement for the previous night's Bruins-Rangers game. "They sure do go for him, don't they," he mused...
...fair grounds one day I parked next to the gate. When I returned, the ticket taker told me he had to abandon his post to keep people from crawling all over "your beautiful car." In fact, so many people fondled the car I figure I'll be able to sell it to Intelligence -the fingerprints of half the Communists in East Germany must...
Responsibility Taker. Since last spring, Kestnbaum has been dividing his time about equally between Hart Schaffner & Marx in Chicago and the President's Intergovernmental Commission (charged with studying the whole range of federal-state relationships), which he took over when Clarence Manion resigned (TIME, May 3). In between, he has sandwiched time for the many other posts he holds: chairman of the Committee on Economic Development, director of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic, director of the Chicago Community Fund and of the Great Books Institute, overseer at Harvard. Says Kestnbaum: "If you'll accept...