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...innumerable tales of heroism and cowardice, the continuous demonstrations of the storm's savagery, all add up to a compelling narrative, a hymn to the brute force of nature. The scenes of hundreds swimming through storm waves in downtown Providence, of thousands fighting back flood waters in New London, Conn., of train crews outracing deadly tidal waves and of desperate sailors straining to keep their 1000-ton vessel from from running aground on inland railroad tracks--while perhaps not elegantly presented--are still awesome. To look for some deep meaning in a book like this seems absurd; what it presents...
...cold enough at home to freeze submarines into the ice in Groton, Conn., but New Englanders were somewhat smugly observing the discomfort elsewhere in the land. They had been especially hard-hit during the oil crisis of 1973-74. Since then, they have managed to accumulate some reserves, and Yankee dealers have become adept at scrounging new supplies. Moreover, the area uses little of what is now so scarce: natural gas. Nonetheless, as the sun rose cheerless over hills of gray, snowbound New Englanders felt the cold-in their pocketbooks. Both inflation and the severe winter mean that an average...
...elderly and the poor. Still, New Englanders do not have a sense that their problems cannot be solved, only that the answers have not yet been found. Said Mary Newman, regional director for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare: "People are not scared, just confused." Added Hartford, Conn., Mayor George Athanson: "People want the buck to stop with them. They want to have something to say for a change. All you gotta do is show them how to do it." New Englanders want Carter to supply this missing ingredient-which may be asking quite...
...have all the money going to Newark. The Congressman from Scarsdale wants a cut too." Outgoing Assistant Commerce Secretary John Eden, who is charged with administering the program, calls the 30% requirement "an absolute embarrassment. We gave money to places that didn't need it." Greenwich, Conn., for example, a wealthy suburban community where the per capita income is $8,300 (compared with a national average of $5,850), received $4 million to build a new high school...
Downey's law firm in Wallingford, Conn.--his home town--recently changed its name from Carrozzella and Richardson to Carrozzella, Richardson and Downey...