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When he traveled on Wednesday through a blizzard to the North Country hamlet of Littleton, the part of the state that gave him his margin last time, he met his disciples. Lillian Giberson, 84, spent most of her working life working for a Democrat in the Maine legislature. She hobbled across the street in the falling snow to hear Buchanan speak at the Caledonia Opera House. In the pocket of her old blue snow jacket she carried an envelope containing $100. She said she'd been paid $50 by the Alexander campaign to post his sign in her front yard...
...January rose to 5.8% from 5.6% in December, returning to the top end of the range it held throughout 1995. More ominously, total payroll employment dropped by 201,000 jobs, the biggest decline in nearly five years. The Labor Department put much of the blame on the East Coast blizzard, but some economists suspect that even with normal weather employment would have been flat...
...TREMORS THAT HAVE BEEN SHAKing troubled Apple Computer for more than a month turned into quakes last week--but the upheaval left many observers confused. All last Friday the company kept silent amid a blizzard of news reports that its board had ousted chief executive officer Michael Spindler and chairman Mike Markkula. Their replacement was said to be Gilbert Amelio, an Apple director and chairman and CEO of chipmaker National Semiconductor. The speculation became a continuous buzz when it was learned that Amelio had abruptly quit National Semiconductor. But it was hours before Apple released a brief statement confirming Amelio...
BUDDY NIX, 53, ATLANTA: Gun Watcher Georgia's brand-new Instant Gun Check is a success--with one loophole. If Georgia Bureau of Investigation phones are down for one business day, any applicant can get a gun--no questions asked. When a two-day blizzard shut down Atlanta last month, GBI director Nix arranged for stranded phone operators to be driven in by four-wheel drives. During that period, 24 would-be purchasers turned out to be convicted felons...
Everyone knows that a dog can be somebody's best friend. But during last month's blizzard, one Cambridge canine became a lifesaver...