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...warning was accidentally sent out by two Harrisburg AT&T technicians who were installing new emergency teletype equipment. Most county officials chose not to broadcast the message before they could confirm it. Even in alerted Allentown, Lehigh County's largest city, most residents took the sirens, some dating back to World War II, for fire alarms. Said one practical-minded Pennsylvanian: "An alarm system really wouldn't matter if there was a nuclear war anyway...
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...international competition that challenges the U.S. auto industry today was unknown when lacocca began his career. His father Nicola immigrated to the U.S. from southern Italy in 1902 and eventually built a small auto-rental business in Allentown, Pa., with 33 cars, mostly Fords. Surrounded by Model A's, Son Lido always wanted to work for Ford. After graduating from Lehigh and getting a master's in engineering at Princeton, he joined the company as an engineer in 1946, then quickly switched to a district sales job. By 1970, he had risen so far that only Henry Ford H, grandson...
When Anthony Toto, 37, a pizza-shop owner in Allentown, Pa., put up $50,000 bail for his wife Frances Lenore, the local police and others in the community were stunned. The reason: according to charges filed by the district attorney, Frances had conspired to murder her husband - not once but twice...
Police arrested Frances, Bruno, the Barlips and the two Toto children, Elizabeth and Anthony. Toto was released from the hospital two weeks later, with the first bullet still lodged in his skull. He says he intends to stand by his family during the coming court proceedings. Said an Allentown police detective: "He loves her." The district attorney's office is said to be worried about the case: Tony Toto promises to be a hostile witness...