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Trouble there began brewing among the 3,500 year-round residents in 1955 when a Harvard-based team of outside educators surveyed the island's three schools, recommended some mild reforms. To some Nantucketers, who are suspicious in principle of off-islanders, the whole idea smacked of progressive education-and higher school costs. When Off-Islander Charles H. Minnich, who has been resident superintendent of schools only since 1962, proposed similar ideas this year, the already restive opposition went out for his scalp. Rallying around the popular local high school principal, Mrs. Mary P. Walker, who is satisfied with...
...Next year, however, the indoor courts will permit year-round all-weather play, and will also cut off the chilly wind that whips in off the Charles to heave tennis balls around...
...ports are ill-equipped to load and unload ships, and passage through the 15 sets of locks is tedious and slow; the average ship takes ten days to travel from Chicago to Montreal. Because the waterways freeze over for four months each winter, shippers cannot rely on year-round use. Finally, tolls make shipping by water almost as expensive as land transportation. The project's backers are now debating whether to raise tolls even further to increase revenues or to cut them to attract more traffic. Commissions in both the U.S. and Canada have been ordered to report...
Clothing Retailer Robert R. Storrer of Owosso, Mich., speaks respectfully of the "extremely style-conscious teen, a year-round buyer. If he sees any item he likes, he buys it on impulse. A few calls for a style or color today may mean a headlong rush for it tomorrow." If the college crowd picks it up, and the clothiers climb on the bandwagon, the middle-aged man may find it on his back two years later without even knowing...
...earliest opening for the trots in New York's history. In state after state the racing season, both trots and flats, is stretching into a year-round proposition. Maryland's Bowie race track opened Jan. 17, and advertised the fact by flying planes over Florida's winter tracks with banners reading COME TO BOWIE. Rhode Island's Lincoln Downs opened last week, and New York's Aqueduct will open March...