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DOCILE EDUCATOR to head State University of New York. Post in state government will be vacant Sept. 1. Salary $21,000 yearly, plus use of $97,000 state-owned mansion complete with indoor swimming pool. Also $100 weekly entertainment allowance, and use of Cadillac limousine. Successful applicant must be able to take orders. Apply State Education Building, Albany...
Every day for four weeks the cops had poked around the homes, stores and vacant lots of Springfield, Mo. (pop. 80,500) looking for the weapon used 10 hack to death a shopkeeper and a liquor-store clerk. Last week an off-duty policeman named James Kitchell pushed a hand under an icehouse half a block from the scene of the murders, and pulled out a bloody butcher knife. Kitchell rushed to his boss. Police Chief Warren Norman, with the killer's weapon and an idea of his own: instead of calling the usual press conference...
...carefully and competently labeled, are also carefully unexplored, as if he were afraid that the characters, if given life, would twist out of control. But Hayes is tellingly accurate about the emotions of bored bed partners who do not even 'like each other, and sometimes eloquent about the vacant longings of pretty, light-dazzled girls: "If they expected her to resist, or any of the girls like her, then it would have been wiser in the first place to have concealed all of it: wall around the big estates, and abolish from the newspapers those brides in the expensive...
...million aluminum plant in Montenegro has now been postponed to 1960 at the earliest.) The Yugoslavs are also distressed by the poor quality of East German equipment purchased with Soviet credits, have left hundreds of East German cars and other machines sitting forlornly idle in a huge vacant lot in the center of Belgrade. The only solid benefit Yugoslavia has got out of Russian aid, declared one disillusioned Yugoslav economist last week, was a loan: $30 million in gold and hard currencies...
...admission, there were 200 boys who had not even bothered to reply. Add to this the startling fact that in the summer of 1957, in one state, there were a dozen good colleges whose freshmen classes were not yet filled, and that one excellent university opened with 50 places vacant. All these are grim facts. A tremendous waste of time and effort is involved...