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Guerrilla War. Money has usually been plentiful in Scarsdale, a well-manicured New York City suburb. Once known as the nation's wealthiest town, Scarsdale has also claimed the best public-school system in America. It had never voted down a school budget until this year. The stock market plunge may have been a factor, but there were several others. Last year Scarsdale's commuters were jolted by a New York Times story titled "Guerrilla War Tactics Taught at Scarsdale High." The story solemnly described one high school teacher's course about guerrilla warfare, which included demonstration...
Faubus, if he wins, should be at no financial disadvantage, however; he will be able to call on his old supporters, who include the wealthiest businessmen in the state, to fill his campaign needs...
...plain as a red signal on the main track, the ominous figures in quarterly earnings reports showed for months that the Penn Central Transportation Co. was in precarious financial condition. The nation's largest railroad and its parent corporation, the Penn Central Co., are among the wealthiest companies in the U.S. (assets: $7 billion). But the railroad is burdened with debt, beset by spiral ing costs, tangled operations, a drop in freight shipments and the $100 million annual drain of unwanted passenger service. As a result, a convulsion last week shook the once-mighty Penn Central and spread deep...
...Russian proposal-reasonable as it may seem on the surface-has thoroughly outraged the largest and wealthiest Orthodox body in the U.S., the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America, claiming 443 parishes. The Russians contend that they have a canonical right to establish an "autocephalous" (self-governing) church in America, on the basis of historical preeminence: Orthodox canon law, they say, gives rights over a missionary district to the first hierarchy that establishes itself in a new area-and the Russians have had a diocese in North America since 1840. The Greeks, who did not establish their American...