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...carrion eaters. Police have their hands full trying to prevent refugees from tossing corpses into the rivers. In the overcrowded hospitals, the sick and dying are jammed together on the floor, and the dead continue to lie among the living for hours before the overworked hospital staffs can cart the bodies...
Another kind of cart carries passengers from check-in counters to aircraft loading areas at Tampa's shiny new $80 million terminal. Called "horizontal elevators," these conveyances run on rubber wheels, have no seats but offer plenty of vertical safety poles to cling to, and are designed to operate smoothly for the benefit of the large percentage of elderly riders in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area. Municipal airports in Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles have built moving sidewalks -conveyor belts that transport passengers to loading areas; in Los Angeles, for example, they save about 420 ft. of walking...
Died. Winthrop L. Biddle, 74, penniless scion of the fabulous, prosperous, numerous Philadelphia Biddles; in an auto accident; in Haddon Township, N.J. Rejecting the family fortune, Biddle chose a drifter's life. He was killed by a hit-run driver while pushing a shopping cart full of his belongings down a country road...
This statement was in response to an earlier metaphor by Stanley Hoffman, professor of Government, who has insisted at several earlier Faculty meetings that non-major curriculum reform was "putting the cart before the horse...
DONALD Sutherland's twenty-ninth floor suite at the Sheraton Boston Hotel feels like a hothouse-its windows are fogged up with steam and the air inside is heavy and stale. Half empty wine glasses are scattered about the plastic and gold, French streamlined tables, and a portable cart, crowded with dirty dishes and the remains of a lunch, dominates the center of the room. It is four o'clock on a February afternoon...