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...Seattle Insurance Man George Newell purchased Los Angeles County property (near the Santa Anita race track) for $6,050 each, soon sold it for $12,500 each and pooled the money to start the Breel Racing Stables. After that, Newell furnished almost everything that was spent for the upkeep of the stables. He also paid Brewster $5,000 a year. Brewster earned the $5,000, as he himself told the story, for getting up at 4:30 a.m. to see "what horses needed to be walked...
Kansas City's Topic A was a 1% tax that the city government wanted to levy on earnings so that suburbanites can be forced to pay for the upkeep of the city they inhabit by day and shun by night. In Hollywood the swimming-pool set, thousands strong, responded to an unseasonable temperature in the 80s by flicking winter's debris off the water. Los Angeles and Brooklyn joined in the guessing about whether the Dodgers would really move West. Detroiters based buoyant hopes on the first signs of a heavy spring market for 1957 cars (see BUSINESS...
...that Polish coal exports be sold to Russia at a nominal price per ton (about one-seventh the market price). He also arranged that Germany should pay Poland reparations, but these he collected himself. He then forced the Poles to accept a permanent Soviet army of occupation, for whose upkeep Poland paid. He also maintained access through Poland to Soviet divisions (now 22) garrisoned in East Germany...
...disappointed that Gomulka had agreed to recognize the "workers" regime in Hungary, though Gomulka had refused to endorse Kadar by name. Instead of getting the Red army out of Poland, he had entered into a new military agreement by which six Soviet divisions would remain in Poland, although their upkeep would in future be paid for by Moscow. His reason: "Safeguarding our security and protecting the sanctity of the Oder-Neisse line." The poison sowed by Stalin was still being harvested by Russia...
Since the University has never quibbled over architectural unity, there is little point now to argue the merits of contemporary design when initial cost and upkeep make modernity unavoidable. The only apparent pitfall would be in building something like the Graduate Center, which is pleasing enough to the eye, but was in fact a sounding board...