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Their concern is understandable. When it was first opened in 1825 by Governor DeWitt Clinton, the canal provided the only practical way of hauling cargo across New York. For decades it prospered. But the coming of, first, the railroads, then oil and gas pipelines, eventually turned "Clinton's ditch" into something of an anachronism, and now, traffic on the system is down to a trickle. As recently as 1973, commercial shippers moved a total of 2,548,113 tons of freight on the New York State barge canal system. Last year they moved only 579,777 tons. Shippers have...
...because of the controversy, it will probably be one of the highest-rated shows on television." In any case, viewers can always turn the color adjustment knob on their TV sets all the way down and go back to seeing Bogart in black-and-white. -By Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Jeff Gottlieb/Los Angeles and Beverley Slopen/Toronto
...Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Lawrence Mondi/New York and John Prime/Shreveport
...Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Marilyn Alva/ St. Lucia and Bernard Diederich/ Santo Domingo
DIED. Lila Acheson Wallace, 94, ebullient, strong-minded co-founder and -owner of Reader's Digest, with her late husband DeWitt Wallace, and one of America's greatest philanthropists; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. The couple met in 1920 when he was struggling to start his new venture, and she began married life stuffing solicitation envelopes in a Greenwich Village basement. As the Digest quickly prospered, she kept her editorial influence largely indirect. But it was she who took the lead in the childless Wallaces' vast (more than $60 million over 30 years) charitable efforts. Personally overseeing many...