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...YORK the air breathes back at you. Along 45th St., in the heart of the theater district, the limousines queue up at the curb like a funereal parade. As if staged by some cynical scenarist, a drunk's reflection appears in the shiny black of one of the cars. He ambles slowly, his image distorts as it sweeps over the doors, door handles, smoked windows and tail lights of one limo and forms again on the next, moving down the line until it drops off, lost in the gutter. Across from the Royale Theater, where a golden marquee has promoted...
Given the relatively poor quality of surveying instruments used in 1774 and the common practice of basing astronomical observations on the moons of Jupiter rather than the star Polaris, it is amazing that the boundary between Derby Line, Vt., and Rock Island, Que., is as close to the "true" 45th parallel of latitude as is the case...
...troublesome border was drawn in 1774 when British authorities ordered a surveyor to set the line between the colonies of Canada and Vermont at the 45th parallel, the exact midline between the equator and the North Pole. Local historians have cited records of liquor rations brought along on the trip. And these explain why, they say, when the survey was through, the border was set more than a quarter of a mile too far north. But for that British rum, Derby Line would have been firmly in Canada for the past 205 years, and the border in an unsettled...
...high point of the day, however, comes early. The 45th bird, Lola B., a 15-oz. common bantam with a proud black tail, breaks cleanly from the mailbox, then swings sharply to the left and lands atop a sheep shed beyond the snow fences. A tape-measure team figures her flight at 302 ft. 8 in., which betters Kung Flewk's old record...
...committee prepared a press release in advance, outlining its criticisms of social-spending cuts in Carter's new budget. The release, which included such undiplomatic words as "challenged" and "unacceptable," reached White House Aides Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell as they were celebrating Jerry Rafshoon's 45th birthday. Outraged, the White House staffers decided Bella...