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P:In Atlantic City, ten harassed drivers who operate the six special school buses in the northwestern suburban area decided they'd had enough, announced that they hoped never again to have to drive a carload of schoolkids. Their union thought they had valid reasons for their strike. Among them: two boys had threatened to slash one driver with switch-knives unless he drove them directly to their destination; a group of girls had stripped another girl and thrown her panties into the street; students had a habit of hanging smaller kids out windows, of slashing cushions, unscrewing seats, pulling emergency cords, exploding firecrackers, throwing lighted cigarettes at the drivers, squirting them with water pistols, spitting in their faces. As far as the unhappy drivers were concerned, the kids could try walking for a while.

P:Louisiana State University learned that it had not yet escaped the days of Huey Long. Last week the state legislature announced that the $1,500,000 appropriation that the library had been expecting so long would not go to the library after all. Instead, it will pay the cost of adding 22,000 more seats to the seldom-filled 39,200-seat stadium that Huey built. P:Verner W. Clapp, chief assistant librarian of Congress, warned U.S. scientists to restrain themselves. Today, said he, there are nearly 2,000,000 scientific articles that U.S. librarians have not yet had time to catalogue--and the backlog is increasing at the rate of 215,000 a year. P:Union Carbide and Carbon Corp. announced a model scholarship program to send high-school students to college. If all goes according to plan, the program will eventually take care of 400 students, pay their full four-year tuition, add an allowance for books and board, give an annual $600 grant to the colleges that select them.

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