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According to one Winter Haven source, the Sox have reaffirmed an offer of outfielder Joe Rudi and pitcher Bruce Hurst for Houston Astros catcher Luis Pujols. Another rumor has Hurst traveling to Pittsburgh for Pirate backstop Steve Nicosia, but a Pittsburgh executive said Nicosia "is probably headed to the Yankees or the Angels, with the Red Sox third on the list...
...will total $3.3 billion; operating subsidies, $1 billion. The Reagan Administration would like to limit, if not eliminate, this aid. High on the Reagan hit list is funding for any new mass transit projects (usually 80% federal, 20% state), throwing a wrench into planning in Los Angeles and Houston. Construction will proceed on projects already under way-subways in Atlanta and Baltimore, an elevated line in Miami. But some planned extensions are in jeopardy, and transit officials fear that many existing systems will be in trouble without federal help...
More than 30 cities put in orders, from Hartford to Houston to Honolulu, for a total today of 4,250. But the cities should have been suspicious of the Flxible 870. After all, that missing e happened to stand for elasticity. Atlanta ordered the first Flxibles-134 at about $95,000 each-and defects, from faulty air conditioning to rickety engine mounts, have kept the maintenance department working overtime ever since. But the real shocker came in New York, the city of killer potholes. New York's Flxibles began rolling in time for last summer's Democratic National...
Grumman began dispatching repair crews throughout the country. New York had to lease 150 old buses from Washington. Chicago replaced 205 Flxibles with 100 old school buses. In Houston, where only about 275 of 475 Flxibles work on a given day, route expansion had to be halted. The prognosis is not encouraging. Grumman is repairing the A-frame by welding more than 200 lbs. of steel plates to the undercarriage. In New York last week, the first of the repaired Flxibles cracked again during stress tests. The repair process, once it is perfected, will take 36 hours. Grumman...
...Antonio 135, Houston...