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...million new black voters have registered for this year's election, according to Joseph Madison of the N.A.A.C.P. A Chicago group last month signed up 40,000 new voters, largely by sending vans to the city's unemployment and welfare offices. Says Congressional Delegate Walter Faun troy of Washington, D.C.: "There is more black voter registration than at any time since the Voting Rights Act was passed...
Jane Fonda is not "raising her two daughters," because she has only one, Vanessa, by Roger Vadim. Her other child is Tom Hayden's son Troy...
...assistant corporate counsel. "If GM gets hit with a $1 million claim, it raises the price of its cars. When the city gets hit with $1 million, it lays off ten policemen. The people are going to lose." Some municipalities, especially small ones, have to raise taxes. Troy intends to hike property taxes an average of $200 per household. Concedes Steven Berry, the winning lawyer in the Troy suit: "Citizens can end up footing the bill for mistakes by people they have either elected or hired to act competently. There is a problem there...
Your story on the award of a contract for New York City subway cars [July 26] is somewhat misleading. You refer to the loss of the contract by the Budd Co. of Troy, Mich., to Canada's Bombardier Inc., but neglect to mention that the cars will be assembled in Bombardier's U.S. plant in Barre, Vt. You imply that several hundred jobs will be lost to Budd, but ignore the new jobs that will be created with Bombardier in Vermont, and also those that will be saved at Westinghouse Electric in New York, where motors and other...
...their tableaux came down from Mount Parnassus. Some 4,500 dues-paying ($5 a year) members of the festival organization have the right to buy 16 tickets at up to $20 each. "The pageant is a chance for us to be part of something creative," explains Clem Troy Sr., a Laguna-based engineer, who, with his wife and three children, has taken part in four of them. "I'm no artist myself, but the pageant is part of this country's culture...