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...RECORD, for its part, sacrificed much of its personality in order to capitalize on its new plant. The old tabloid format went down the drain, along with the daily full front-page photo of The Drama of Everyday Life (kids' cats stuck in trees with firemen on the way; the near rescue of a suicide victim; the wreckage of the car and truck that crashed head-on at 80 mph, miraculously killing only seven out of eight occupants). The front-page maze of banner headlines luring readers to inside pages gave way to a single full-column headline atop...
...trying to track down, no less, the Route 2 sniper. And the editors still love the Record dialect in headlines: "U.S. Confuses Red Radar, Cripples Red Air Defense." Not to mention the non-sequiturs like "List 29 Americans Dead in British Jet Crash" or "Hub Tolls Grief for 9 Firemen...
Harvard made repairs on its Howard St. apartment building Tuesday morning, one day after the University accidentally permitted Cambridge firemen to tear apart the second and third floors while tenants were still living in the basement...
...would not comment on the administrative mix-up which caused a Harvard official Monday to give permission for the firemen to tear holes in the roof and floors of the building as part of a practice drill...
Labor costs now consume 600 of every dollar spent to move freight by rail. The industry deals with 15 major unions that are never hesitant to strike. Right now, the United Transportation Union, representing engineers, brakemen, firemen and conductors, is planning to strike Penn Central in June, when a Government-imposed cooling-off period expires. Seventy-year-old work rules force railroads to pay train crews a full day's wages for every 100 miles traveled -a distance that the fastest diesel locomotives cover in two hours. Some states require trains to carry "full" five-man crews. Says Alan...