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Could this be the real-life story of Kitty Kelley? Only if it falls into the category of vacuum-cleaner journalism, sucking up every stray fact and innuendo and without trying to sift the important from the trivial. Kelley has raised the practice of prattling about the rich and famous to high artifice, so perhaps that is why she dodges full-dress interviews about her past with the nimbleness of a faun in a forest fire...
...Mellon Foundation is located in a neat little four-story building on 52nd St.--much smaller than you would expect for such a big-name institution. The storefront next door is split in half. The left side houses a laundry, and the right side a cleaner...
Inside the cleaner's store were two elderly men, caricatures of New York immigrant Jewish storeowners. They recognized the picture all right. They had seen it in The Times. No, they had never seen Rudenstine in person, they said. The elder of the two men scanned over The Times article, nothing that Rudenstine had declined to answer questions about his parents...
...walked away from the divided storefront, someone yelled after me. The cleaner and the laundress were conferring. Conversation had improved their memories. Rudenstine, Martin told me, used to bring his shirts in to be cleaned...
Perhaps the most promising alternative is compressed natural gas, or CNG. Although it yields lower mileage than gasoline, CNG is 20% cheaper overall because it burns cleaner and causes less wear on engine parts. The U.S. is virtually self-sufficient in the fuel, supplying nearly 95% of its needs. Modifying cars to run on CNG is much easier than adapting them to electric power: through replacement of the carburetor and fuel system, existing autos can be converted to burn CNG at a cost of about $2,000. Carmakers can build CNG-fueled vehicles from scratch without major retooling. GM plans...