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...modest houses, an attractive downtown shopping area and several motels?most of them strung along U.S. 101, the main street. Its nigh school, a Depression-era legacy of the Public Works Administration, sits prominently on a high hill. When the morning fog clears?at 8 a.m., whiteness blankets the town???Marshfield High commands a sweeping view of Coos...
...price of the raw land. George F. Schoeck, a bank executive in Morris County, N.J., gives this example: "A builder used to put in a 28-foot road with no curbing. He'd compact it, roll it, lay two inches of black top and dedicate it to the town???and it would be their problem. Now the developer has to lay eight inches of stone with a three-inch binder coat of coarse asphalt and 1½ inches of topping and Belgian block curbing." The result of these and other requirements is that an $8,000 lot may cost another...
...weekends, Nader hitchhiked out of town???just to see the U.S.?and learned, among many other things, that trucks were not built the way he and truck drivers thought they should be. For instance, a coat hanger in some truck cabs could puncture a driver's skull in case of an accident. He graduated magna cum laude and won a Phi Beta Kappa...
Edmund Norwood Bacon, 54, is a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), thin (160 Ibs.) Philadelphian with sharp blue eyes and an intensely intellectual air that hardly seems the right equipment for moving and shaking a major city. But his total dedication to his special art and to his native town???plus an impressive gift of gab?is changing the look and feel of the town that was once the butt of comedians as the sleepiest city of them...
...theatrical troupe can ever be completely sure of how it will be received in a strange town???particularly when the troupe is English and the town is Moscow. Last week, for the first time since the 1917 revolution, an English theatrical company was playing in the Soviet capital. It had come to town with an old Russian favorite: Shakespeare's Hamlet (which was presented in the Russian theater of the 1930s as a story of the triumph of a young revolutionary). The Hamlet was a new production (in English) that had not even been proved in London, boasted...