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...trains were traveling on parallel tracks that merged to cross the Gunpowder River bridge north of Baltimore. Amtrak's twelve-car Washington-to- Boston Colonial, carrying 616 passengers, was speeding along at 105 m.p.h. or more. A Conrail train, consisting of three engines, was headed for Harrisburg, Pa. After the Conrail engineer apparently failed to heed a "distant signal" alerting him to slow down, he was unable to respond to a second stop signal and slid directly into the path of the onrushing Amtrak. The passenger train slammed into the rearmost Conrail engine, which exploded. The Amtrak engine caught fire...
Bank Robber Willie Sutton would have been intrigued: the First Bank & Trust of Harrisburg, Ill., is giving away guns. In lieu of cash interest, the bank some time ago began offering a collector's set of three Smith & Wesson revolvers (retail value: $1,300) for new certificates of deposit. To get the guns, a customer can deposit $2,000 for a ten-year term, for example, or $30,000 for six months. The bank estimates that the weapons are worth the equivalent of 10% annual interest over ten years. The idea has been so successful that the bank...
...unusual promotion was designed to attract depositors from outside Harrisburg (pop. 9,332), a depressed coal-mining town. The gimmick worked: the bank has received inquiries from as far away as Australia and the Soviet Union...
...Union of Concerned Scientists, a group that has been critical of the nuclear-power industry: "I must confess that I think we know more at this stage about Chernobyl than was the case four months after Three Mile Island," the much less serious 1979 nuclear accident near Harrisburg...
...condemned Moscow for its late disclosure of the accident and for its relative silence on its seriousness. But at the time of the TMI crisis, President Carter certainly wasn't letting us know how bad things were. While federal experts were predicting a hydrogen explosion, the President was telling Harrisburg residents that they weren't in great danger and that an evacuation would be "strictly a precautionary move...