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Never has Michigan's tiny Kalamazoo College (enrollment: 750) so aptly embodied one Indian meaning of its namesake city: "boiling water." After 128 tepid years, Kalamazoo this fall cooked up a year-round operation that gives students, at no extra cost, a remarkable range of educational experience in the standard four years before graduation: social work in Africa, fulltime jobs in executive suites or emergency wards, mandatory study at any of three European universities, and regular work at Kalamazoo...
...Real Estate Tycoon William Zeclcendorf, boss of the widespread Webb & Knapp empire, acquired a controlling interest in Yonkers Raceway for International Recreation Corp., a Webb & Knapp affiliate. Estimated cost: $17 million. Zeckendorf's avowed intention is to build a geodesic dome over the track to make it a year-round sports arena. More likely, he will merge the profitable Yonkers with International in order to write off the losses on International's Freedomland amusement park, which has yet to show a profit. Always in need of ready cash, Zeckendorf also unloaded the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles...
...harvest during the long summer. Inevitably, many migrants have settled in Newburgh; since 1950 the number of Negro residents has risen 151%, even though the city's overall population has dropped 3%. Poor, ill-trained and badly educated, Newburgh's ex-migrants find it hard to get year-round jobs in a town with little industry. The stubborn discrimination of the North has forced them to congregate in four waterfront districts that police bluntly call "the trouble wards." The area is now a classic slum, going from bad to worse; during the past three years, the assessed value...
Directed largely at the year-round residents, Currier's arrows also twanged toward the summer people, whom he calls "the Codfish Aristocracy; they come here and rot with cocktail parties, and when they entertain our stars, they do so to show them off as freaks to their guests." If the Kennebunkport Playhouse makes it to the last item on his 1961 schedule, the summer people and the year-rounders will again be watching Edward Everett Horton in Springtime for Henry. Then, if anyone comes along with the $300,000 asking price for the Playhouse, what will Robert C. Currier...
...Once the northward exodus of tourists in the springtime rated with the hurricanes as a natu ral catastrophe, inevitably followed by a summer-long slump. Now Florida is the focus of a permanent population shift that has made it the fastest-growing state in the Union and a bustling, year-round center of industry, commerce and building...