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...discovered that instead of being isolated in a car, listening to some dreary radio station, CB helps them stay alert and puts them in touch with scores of other drivers. A typical transmission we picked up in Illinois went like this: 'Breaker 10 [the emergency frequency], this is Buffalo Bill in an 18-wheeler rolling by Mile 78 on 1-90 North. Got an overturned camper here, lots of smokeys [police] in the area, and it's pretty congested.' It was a useful message, and it made the point that what may have started...
...Prior experience and a mellifluous voice aren't necessary; some amount of musical sense is. The Glee Club only accepts men, the Choral Society women, the Collegium Musicum both. Various of these choruses will be performing in Symphony Hall (Beet-hoven's 9th with the BSO and Seiji Ozawa), Buffalo (Stravinsky's Symphony of Pslams with Michael Tilson Tohomas), and Europe, so this might be a good year to join...
...line is. By 4 o'clock, I was already being threatened." Democratic liberals in the assembly, particularly blacks and Puerto Ricans, harbored populist fears that the bankers, who advise Carey and demand austerities, were about to take over the city. "They have no feeling for the poor," said Buffalo Assemblyman Arthur Eve. City Councilman Theodore Weiss echoed a familiar hyperbole: "This may be the last day for democracy in New York...
...Buffalo Bill Cornerback Robert James, out for the season with a knee injury...
More and more serious campers fanned out through Canada's well-named Wood Buffalo National Park, which sprawls over 17,300 square miles and is reputedly the world's biggest national park. Located on the 60th parallel between Alberta and the Northwest Territories, the park is laced with hundreds of lakes, forests, and meadows where whooping cranes summer and the last large herds of bison roam. There are only 16 developed campsites, though bivouacking is allowed if the visitor has a campfire permit...