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...sound like a game of Monopoly, but the Department of Transportation last week was taking bids for the Consolidated Rail Corp. Created in 1976 from the Penn Central and five other bankrupt railroads, Conrail required a $7 billion federal transfusion through 1982. Under the stewardship of Chairman L. Stanley Crane, Conrail earned a profit in 1983 of $313 million. When DOT tried to peddle Conrail to 20 firms last spring, the only offer came from the company's employees, who already own 15% of the road. But last week 14 bidders stepped forward to offer to buy the giant...
...journey that did not lead Bombeck to the moon began in Dayton, and the date could be set accurately enough as June 4, 1936. She was nine, and that was the day her father, a crane operator named Cassius Fiste, died of a heart attack at 42. "One day you were a family," she recalls, "living in a little house at the bottom of a hill. The next day it was all gone." The furniture, including Erma's bed and dresser, was immediately repossessed, and her half sister went off to live with her natural mother. Erma...
Much was made of Celtic Whooping Crane Kevin McHale's impersonal garroting of horn-rimmed Laker Kurt Rambis in Game 4. But there was a more telling development during that game, when Boston Guards Henderson and Dennis Johnson decided themselves to swap defensive assignments, and the latter efficiently took custody of Magic Johnson. The fact that K.C. Jones was open to the idea describes the Celtics' first-year coach, a humble former backcourtman who minimizes his part in eight Celtic championships by saying, "My fingerprints are all over the coattails of Bill Russell...
...have less stopping power and that consequently more ducks would be injured, he has cut back on his department's research into the matter. He has even withdrawn an Interior Department film showing the effectiveness of steel shot. Ironically, one recent victim of lead poisoning was a whooping crane, a member of a highly endangered species (only about 100 whoopers are left) that the Interior Department has been trying to save, at a cost of more than $500,000 a year. Arnett dismisses the death as a "freak occurrence...
...protagonist. Harry, is a construction crane operator who gets ill and consequently, tired. A man who had always been proud of his self-sufficiency and skill on the job, he does not make the descent into economic obsolescence gracefully. Faced with the ignominy of pleading for jobs at a string of recession-time construction sites, he is left with no alternatives but to work as a night-watchman, or to accept a job with his brother, a small-time merchant, benevolent and argyle-sweatered, still hoping that there are fortunes to be made in "surplus" Harry cannot resign himself...