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...even more dismal than usual. Because of a turbine breakdown at a Conrail power station, their trains into the city would be half an hour behind schedule. Fearing that the delays could be much longer, thousands of travelers took to their cars. But just as rush hour reached its bumper-to-bumper peak, a 4-sq.-ft. section of cement roadbed in the southbound lane of Manhattan's elevated West Side highway suddenly collapsed and tumbled to the ground below. While a repair crew patched the hole with a metal plate traffic backed up for three hours. Said...
Outside the park it is a carnival, a medieval fair. People mill about, shouting for people they must meet, hawkers scream prices for tickets and vendors accost passersby trying to sell buttons and hats, mock helmets and pennants, bumper stickers and plaques which proclaim. "WE LOVE NEW YORK TOO, IT'S THE YANKEES WE HATE." The crowd presses toward the stadium...
...Philadelphia last week, a bumper-to-bumper procession of cars, sometimes ten miles long, inched into the city while subways, buses and trolleys stood idle, sidelined by a strike of 5,000 transit workers, the fourth such in six years. Thousands of commuters from the city's outskirts tried to get downtown via Conrail, but that overtaxed railroad line had to leave hundreds stranded on platforms. Some of the 400,000 Philadelphians who rely on public transit took to bicycles to get to work. The strike, sparked by union protests over the hiring of part-time help...
ZOBELS DROP DEAD, said the mildest of several bumper stickers that blossomed around the state. The couple was reviled on talk shows and received hate mail, bomb threats and late-night nuisance calls. After KIMO-TV Commentator Herb Shaindlin learned that Patricia, 32, was pregnant, he told his audience: "It's nice to know that Ron is doing to her what he's been doing to the rest of us." Says Patricia, who works for a highly regarded local firm: "People are so hateful without really knowing me. It affects everything I do, from writing checks...
Harvard admissions officials spend a good part of each fall on the trail. And every January for the past five years, they have been rewarded with a bumper crop of applicants...