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...when they arrived at the village, they first noticed what had survived. A reinforced cinder-block house and another made of precast concrete slabs still stood, less than a mile from the blast. One iso-ft. guyed radio tower was erect. A 15,4000-gal. tank of liquefied petroleum gas was intact; only its handrail was bent. Shelves of groceries seemed unharmed. A power substation was 95% operable. The telephone system showed little damage. The blast had blown out fires that had been started by the searing heat of the explosion. Underground gas lines to houses less than a mile...
...Administration is now resigned to the prospect that its $101 billion, ten-year highway program will be sharply scaled down. Nevertheless, chances are that the final bill will call for federal spending considerably above the present $6 billion a year. To help pay the bill, the 2?-a-gal. federal gasoline tax may be hiked...
...sale by Ev-R Shield Products, Inc. of Joppa, Md. "Glascote," painted by brush, swab or roller onto porous materials like plaster, plaster wallboard, seasoned wood, concrete or pressed wood, develops a poreless finish that, says the manufacturer, is invulnerable to all known solvents. Price: $14.95 a gal...
...premiere. To open its new suburban branch, Manhattan's Lord & Taylor decorated its store entrances with 75,000 dogwood blossoms plus immense, palpitating pink velvet hearts inscribed "Lord & Taylor Just Loves the Land of Brotherly Love," and prepared to spray all visitors entering its doors from a 10-gal. (1,280 oz.) tank of Shalimar perfume costing $20 an oz. retail...
...Yorker (with a farm to sell) and his acidly vivacious girl friend, Plain and Fancy achieves some entertaining contrasts between plain and fancy living, country and city ways. When the Amish aren't donning their buttonless clothes, "shunning" a miscreant or putting up a barn, the city gal is being ogled by six frighteningly silent Amish youths, or is trying to pump water, churn butter, cook rice and grind sausage all at once-which makes the gayest five minutes in the show...