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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...northeastern U.S. last month, tiny Rhode Island was struck badly enough to be declared a disaster area. This meant that many of those who lost money were eligible for food stamps: $7.6 million worth. All told, 105,000 households-roughly one-third of the Rhode Island total-got authorization to use the stamps, and an estimated 90,000 actually...
...abduction was carried out with deadly precision. At 9 a.m., after first attending his daily Mass, the punctual Moro left his apartment in the Trionfale quarter on the north side of Rome and got into the back seat of his blue Fiat 130. His police driver and his bodyguard sat in front. An Alfa Romeo, carrying three plainclothes policemen, followed closely behind. About half a mile from Moro's home, a white Fiat station wagon came to an abrupt halt at a corner stop sign, forcing Moro's driver to brake sharply. The police escort car slammed into...
...orders from its lawyers, would not specify what changes were involved, and the Navy simply refused to comment. But a General Dynamics official at the Groton yards offers some free-form insight. Says he: "If you design a space to hold three bunks, and then you want four, you got trouble because each bunk has its own air conditioning and lighting. See what I mean...
...scars run pretty damn deep." he says, ''and a lot of people are saying, 'My God, I'm not going to get caught in that position again. I'm going to run as hard as I can with the plants I've got, and I'm not going to put any more in place." Suddenly one day they'll realize that here it is-the big demand-and they will be scurrying to get out there and build that new plant because everybody will be saying, 'By gosh. I need that...
...weekly transformation. The day marked his 35th anniversary as TRB and his 80th as Richard Strout. He was toasted at breakfast by 30 capital colleagues, before lunch by his friends at the New Republic and after lunch at the Monitor, where Reader Jimmy Carter telephoned his congratulations. Strout got a late start on his column, but one would never know; as usual, TRB this week is a sprawling symphony of erudition, indignation, historical allusion and harmonic prose. His overture to a diatribe against the two-thirds Senate majority requirement for treaty approval: ''I don't know whether...