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...Fools Crows granddaughters. Vine Mae, chose to move away from the rural areas to a federally-constructed cluster housing project in the reservation town of Kyle, where she lives in a three-bedroom house with three children, two sisters, and her sisters' three children. Unlike her grandparents. Vine Mae has central heating, running water, and a telephone. But she is unemployed, and away from the rural areas where people fill time chopping wood, hauling water and preparing for winter. Her only pastime is drinking...
...already beginning to slant low as we head toward the volcano. Smoke trails in long plumes from a dozen places on the mountainside. We come in over a cluster of bombed-out buildings, low enough to see through the gaps in the crushed orange tile roofs. The first cracks of ground fire come up at us, and the door gunners rear from their seats in their harnesses on either side of the chopper and shoot back. The ship reverberates with the sound of alternating bursts of fire, left and right...
After observing windows and doors regularly being left open. Heloisa Edwards, manager of the Row and Cluster Facilities Office, informed three fraternity houses that she would turn off their heat for one week as an experiment...
...weeks, I had my lunch indoors, in a sawdusty bar and grill on Eighth Avenue called the Blarney Stone. I patronized the Blarney Stone's grill, but the bar was never short for business. Each day, a cluster of grizzled old guys huddled around one corner of the counter, nurturing their pints and carrying on what appeared to be an endlessly repeating discussion of welter weight boxing. And at a table in the back, two small mailmen sat down everyday, without fail, and quietly drained a pair of enormous pitchers...
Boston Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand found an encouraging growth in the high-technology industries in his area. "The companies that used to cluster along Route 128, the inner Boston beltway," he says, "now stretch all the way to Route 495, the beltway 20 miles farther out." Correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer, who reported the story from New York, admires entrepreneurs who broke away from older corporations to set up their own shops. "They have done themselves and the U.S. economy a real service," he says...