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...residents. Driving abreast was Truck Driver David Pace, hauling a load of empty beer bottles to Hartford and accompanied in the cab by his wife. "I felt my wheels going soft on me," Pace told his father later from a hospital bed. "I screamed to Helen to duck and grab the pillow because we're going down." Eileen Weldon of nearby Darien, driving alone in her car, sailed off into the dark river too and survived. The Paces, seriously injured, were snatched out of the water by a fisherman who had been asleep in his boat. "I heard...
While it was getting leaner, Conrail was also getting stronger. With deregulation, it has been able to cut prices and grab business from other carriers. Last year, for example, it hauled 875 carloads of water-purification chemicals that used to travel by truck from a Du Pont plant in Delaware. Conrail also snagged a fuel-hauling contract from Lake Ontario barge operators and moved 6,583 carloads of fuel oil for the Niagara Mohawk Power Corp...
Most board members, whatever their qualms about Hooks, are fuming at Wilson, and say they did not realize that she intended last month's endorsement as a prelude to last week's power grab. Her main charge is that Hooks has refused to release records that would, she says, document his administrative bungling. But, said Hailes, "I don't know of any materials requested that have not been turned over." Indeed, it looks now as though Wilson is the one in jeopardy. "If there is a showdown," predicted Board Member Hazel Dukes, "the vote would...
Stakes leaves minutes later satisfied that she has it under control. Often say McMahon the doctor will stay especially if there is a patient who might encounter some sort of difficulty during the night and grab sleep when he can Stakes serves as a neurologist as well as an internist in day light and on nights when the lab is in service he says "I fit sleep in someplace...
...mainstay of Brown social life is the campus snack bar system. Students who miss meals during the day can grab a bite to eat at places like "the Gate" and "the Ivy Room." Each spot has a different decor and undergraduates can use their meal 'credit', kept track of by a computerized system, to down some pizza or slurp a frappe...