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...refreshing, humid and sweet, How good the caprifoli smells...
...lives in a first-floor cell in the medium-security federal prison at Lewisburg, Pa. During the first four years of his eight-year term for jury tampering, Hoffa the tough guy has seemingly been a model prisoner. He spends most of his days working in a humid subbasement shop making and repairing mattresses for his fellow prisoners. He gets no pay, whereas his former salary was $100,000 a year. Polite but somewhat remote from other inmates, Hoffa lifts barbells in the prison gym, attends church services, does a lot of reading and takes periodic walks round the prison...
...FIRST SAW riverrun in the late afternoon of a humid hot May Saturday, a day which drove city-dwellers up the walls or out to the countryside. With a friend, I'd walked up from the Village to Central Park, then full of softball games and lingering couples, street musicians, porno peddlers, family picnics and friendly cops. To walk through it that day, to row a boat in its cramped pond was to welcome back the sentimentality and nostalgia forestalled during the year by sterner pursuits. When with sweat-stained shirts and feet aching we decided to move...
...slices its way southwestward toward St. Louis through seas of hybrid feed corn. Blackbirds wing over the blowing tassels, plucking caterpillars from among the leaves and blowing silk, oblivious to the round-the-clock rumble of the highway. In this season the land is still hot, the air humid; the prairie wind sears rather than cools, and storms roll in from the west in minutes. Along the four-lane divided highway, humming tires throw up white crushed rock from the shoulders to nick a windshield or chip paint from a fender. From the few knolls in this flat land...
...polluted air hung like a filthy muslin curtain along the entire Atlantic Coast, from Boston south to Atlanta. Because of unusually stagnant winds and humid heat in the high 90s, Washington, D.C., was on the verge of the first smog alert in the capital's history. The hardest hit of all U.S. cities was New York (see following story), which declared a first-stage pollution alert and simultaneously reeled under a severe power shortage...