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...worst blizzard in the city's history had howled with little warning across Lake Erie and trapped 17,000 workers in their downtown offices. Some 5,000 automobiles were abandoned by their owners when all traffic stopped; police in the suburban town of Lancaster counted 66 cars in just one two-mile stretch of roadway, some with the snow piled over their roofs. Drivers sought shelter wherever they could find it. Some 400 motorists and stranded downtown workers slept on chairs and the floors of the Liberty Bank Building...
...cost of the blizzard was staggering. Some 300,000 people were forced out of work; the total economic loss in Erie and Niagara counties was expected to reach $225 million, including property damage in the city of about $18 million. Nor was the area's crisis over. Several thousand residents in nearby rural homes were still snowbound, their condition unknown. And at week's end it was snowing again in Buffalo...
...before the show, Knievel made it over the sharks but skidded into a retaining wall in Chicago's International Amphitheater and for the 13th time in his frangible career broke some bones: the right forearm and the left collarbone (his 55th and 56th breaks). After putting out a blizzard of P.T. Barnum-like press releases, all CBS got for its $500,000 fee was some taped footage of the crash, which it duly showed several times along with some live daredevil stunts. Meanwhile, twelve sharks shipped up from Florida for the show found themselves not only unemployed...
...list of leftouts continues. Professor James Q. Wilson's recent book Thinking About Crime, slashed through the blizzard of liberal sentiments about reform and re-education to outline a daring, new position in favor of jail cells and bread rations. Captain Lock-em-Up, who admittedly does not stand alone among Harvard government professors, will speak in a panel discussion at the Harvard Law Forum, to be held on Thursday, Feb. 10, at 8 p.m. at Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School. Wilson's co-panelists will be Joseph Jordan, your average Boston Police Commissioner, and George V. Higgins...
...Limit. On the fourth morning, as the 82 remaining racers waited at Thief River Falls, Minn., to begin the final 148-mile sprint to Winnipeg, a wave of fierce Arctic air-accompanied by a blizzard-swept in. Temperatures plummeted to -16°, and the 30 m.p.h.-wind blew the snow horizontally across the frigid landscape. Even snowmobilers have their limit. Officials called off the race and awarded first-prize money ($10,500) to the contestant with the best time for three days (9:39:43), 19-year-old Archie Simonson of Grand Forks, N. Dak. Simonson has already earmarked...