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...produced little more than some annoying static in phone service. Beyond a rash of minor sabotage that damaged cables and equipment, the only major effect was a suspension of new phone installations as Bell System companies kept skeleton repair crews close to central offices. Filling in for striking operators, gravel-voiced executives on twelve-hour switchboard shifts were all thumbs at first, but by week's end most were well on the way to mastering their temporary tasks...
There are drive-in movies, restaurants, laundries, banks and even churches-so why not a drive-in funeral home? Atlanta Mortician Hirschel Thornton, 49, will open one this week. The world's first monument to automotive mourning consists of five picture-windowed viewing rooms frontin on a curved, gravel driveway. So that drive-in mourners will not have to peer through rain-streaked windows, Thornton has covered the driveway with a roof. Another thoughtful touch: the windows reach almost to the ground, enabling passengers in even the lowest-slung foreign sports cars to get a good look without having...
Until recently, when oil began spurting out of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the sheiks needed little protection. Who, after all, wanted a flat, trackless desert coated with gravel and hospitable only to a few grazing oryxes, hares and gazelles? Yet the whole Gulf region is estimated to have some 60% of the free world's proven oil reserves, and the Trucial States are sitting on a good deal of it. After only six years of pumping oil, Abu Dhabi has the world's highest per-capita income...
...constant horror. Christened in 1928 as the "Gateway to the South," it swayed sickeningly to every vagrant breeze - so much so that Point Pleas ant Mayor D. B. Morgan banned its use during parades. Last week, under the bumper-to-bumper weight of cars, gravel trucks, and semitrailers, the "Silver Bridge" collapsed, carrying perhaps as many as 100 people to their deaths in the murky, near-freezing Ohio River waters 80 ft. below...
...that bad times were coming. For one thing, there were disastrous freezes in each of those years; such streams as the Nass and Skeena froze solid. When the spring thaws came, most of the young salmon that survived the ice were swept away with their gravel nurseries...