Word: depots
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...Great Helmsman while he was on an inspection tour of southern China. The plan was to attack Mao's special train "with flame throwers and bazookas, to dynamite the railway bridge [over which the train was to pass], bomb the train from the air, blow up the oil depot near the train stop in Shanghai, and then assassinate the Chairman in the ensuing commotion." The indictment sheds no light on how the Great Helmsman, whose improbable code name to the conspirators was "B-52," managed to survive that elaborate plot, or even whether an attack was ever mounted...
After voting with Rosalynn, Carter drove over to the railroad depot, the initial headquarters for his 1976 campaign, to greet an attentive crowd of 100 residents and 200 reporters. Suddenly, for the first time in public, he started to betray what he knew-that he was going to lose. While his aides dug their shoes into the red clay and stared at the ground, Carter gave a rambling talk for ten minutes about the accomplishments of his Administration. "I've tried to honor your commitment," he said at the end. "In the process, I've tried . . . " His voice...
Claypool was born as a railroad town in 1873. It began to die with the rise of the automobile. Today, for shopping, play or work, everybody heads for Warsaw, nine miles up Route 15. Claypool, it is remembered around the bookmobile, used to have a fine depot. It used to have a high school, a tavern, a cattle market, a drugstore and soda fountain. It used to have a hardware store, its own doctor, even a dentist. It used to have a barber shop, a newspaper. Marvin Neff, 74, and his wife Lucy, 70, treasure some old sepia postcards that...
With cash scarce and gasoline expensive, more people are staying home and stretching the family budget by doing their own work. Fixing up the old family homestead that has a 6% mortgage is far cheaper than buying a new house. Says Bernie Marcus, chairman of Home Depot Inc., a chain of Atlanta home-improvement centers: "Given the cost of borrowing, less spending money and the fact that they really can't find competent help, some people don't have a choice...
...there may be a safe and acceptable nuclear depot in the heavens. Three space engineers writing in the journal Astronautics & Aeronautics suggest parking the dangerous debris in an orbit far from any living thing, midway between the earth's own path around the sun and that of the neighboring planet Venus. Left there, say Claude Priest and Robert Nixon of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Eric Rice of the Battelle Laboratories in Columbus, it would never come closer to the earth than 22.5 million km (14 million miles). The scheme would also be cheaper than sending...