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...defy the Christian right. He met last week with a delegation from the National Religious Broadcasters to denounce "the political marriage of the so-called Moral Majority and the New Right" as "a union which seeks to inject unbending rigidity and intolerance into church pew and polling booth alike." Said Anderson: "I don't think it is the province of the church to tell people how they should vote...
...good day for the harriers. Harvard copped first and second places as Darlene Beckford and Kristen Linsley finished a mere second apart, 17:27 and 17:28, respectively. Beckford, momentarily stymied by the poorly marked form, had to wait until Linsley and her Brown pursuer Candy Booth caught up to show her the way before she could take the lead again...
From his 3-ft. by 6-ft., glass-walled, air-conditioned booth on the Washington-New York highway, Toll Collector William Piergalline has a smashing view of the Delaware Memorial Bridge, whose twin, gray-green spans arc gracefully over the Delaware River. But Piergalline, 54, a squat, salty, seven-year veteran of the Delaware River and Bay Authority, rarely notices his surroundings. Like the other toll collectors who, along with six automatic coin receptacles, handle the 16 lanes of the bridge's two Delaware-side toll plazas, he is much too busy raking in the cash. Sixty cents...
...jobs is any barometer. Shifts are regular: the same eight hours daily with two 15-minute beaks and a half-hour lunch five days a week. Salaries increase to $8.05 an hour within three years. All you have to do is count the axles on trucks slowing for the booth, make an appropriate "axle hit" on a twelve-key register, gather in the toll, make change and tally it up at shift's end. The routine can get tedious, true, but each day brings a full-dress human comedy rolling into the toll plazas. Besides, whatever hassles the traffic...
...spots: Particularly heavily trafficked areas, such as the Allston toll booth on the Massachusetts Turnpike and the entrance to the Callahan tunnel, which normally display a high level of nitrogen dioxide. Said to be a deadly mixture when combined with the nitrogen dioxide spewed from the smokestack of the Medical Area Total Energy Plant...