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complete wilderness.

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DR. BURDETT: Theoretically, you can go to

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Karl Everstein's office, but this is inconvenient, to say

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the least.

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TIE CHAIRMAN: I understand that that statute has

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not been very productive insofar as he was concerned. Mr.

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Thompson?

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MR. THOMPSON: Mr. Chairman, I agree with that.

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I understand it has not been very productive, and I have

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two points relative to what you and Professor Burdett have

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been saying; one, with respect to this very point you are

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discussing, metropolitan government.

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The study which I referred to a few moments

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ago in Wicomico County with respect to the form of govern-

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ment in that county and the City of Salisbury, they, the

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study group, has reviewed the metropolitan government

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experiments, you might call them, in the United States.

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For example, in Dade County, Nashville, and even in Canada

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Toronto and other areas, these are studies which exist

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and perhaps this Committee might well use as a source of

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materials and might find it quite helpful.