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...York City schools finally opened, a different kind of crisis caused the 44 schools of Youngstown, Ohio, to shut down at least 15 days before and after the Christmas vacation. The reason was lack of money. This month Youngstown voters simply refused to raise the school-tax rate, even though it is the lowest of Ohio's seven largest cities. Although other cities have balked at school-tax hikes, this was the sixth time in two years that Youngstown had rejected a higher levy...
...industry's third-biggest company after U.S. Steel and Bethlehem, announced price increases on "principal" steel products of 4.5%. Armco Steel Corp. and Inland followed with broad-based price hikes of their own, and U.S. Steel extended its original increases to several other lines. National Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. weighed in with selective price boosts. Bethlehem, meanwhile, showed no signs of budging. "In our opinion," said Chairman Edmund F. Martin, "our price increase is absolutely necessary, and we do not intend to withdraw...
...banjo. What makes many talented audio engineers defect to the technical haven of the recording companies is the frustrating acoustical conditions of the TV studios. Aswarm with crewmen, performers, musicians, cameras, cables, dollies, cranes, lights and scenery, the studios are about as compatible to quality sound reproduction as the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. would...
...same, TIME correspondents from Albany, Ga., to Youngstown, Ohio, from Pompano Beach, Fla., to Pittsburg, Calif., compiled a depressing dossier of destruction: 5,117 fires, 1,928 homes and shops wrecked or ransacked, 23,987 arrests throughout the nation, and $39,544,205 in damage to property (see BUSINESS).* In all, 72,800 Army and National Guard troops were called to duty. Yet riot-connected deaths totaled only 43-no more than in Detroit alone last summer...
...youthful boredom and the hankering for free goods were the principal factors behind the looting, life returned to normal just as euphoria follows fever. Asked why Youngstown, Ohio, was simmering down, Negro teen-agers laughed: "We got social plans for the weekend, and we don't want a curfew ruining...