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...power was off in Wilkes-Barre Thursday morning as the cars and trucks poured into town filled with clean-up crews and families nervously searching for their homes through streets suddenly unfamiliar. The powerless stoplights, coupled with a six-inch layer of brown sludge on the streets, made driving an eery adventure. At a few intersections, civilian deputies or grey-uniformed security police gestured rather futilely at the haggard drivers, but for the most part improvisation prevailed...
...Blackmun and the majority clung to Holmes' precedent. Said Blackmun: "There is merit in consistency, even though some might claim that beneath that consistency is a layer of inconsistency." The original ruling, he observed, had been upheld only nine years ago in a finding that "Congress had no intention of including the business of baseball within the federal antitrust laws." If any change is indicated, said Blackmun, "the remedy is for congressional, and not judicial action." Chief Justice Burger agreed and went further to urge, "It is time the Congress acted...
...jump on. Time after time, litter patients who have waited for hours in a sun of close to 100° are hoisted to the shoulders of their buddies. But then the chopper will zoom down, hover for ten seconds, and take off again, leaving the wounded with a new layer of the red Binh Long dirt in their wounds and another two hours to wait...
With a four-layer cake in his outer office, Chicago's Boss-Mayor Richard J. Daley celebrated his 70th birthday. To friends and newsmen he dispensed spiritual advice: "We should love thy neighbor and honor thy father and thy mother and all senior citizens." And physical: "Exercise, you know, is responsible for my good health. You should be in my basement-jumping rope, punching the bag, lifting weights. The human body will disintegrate if you don't use it." The mayor's well-rounded human body seems in no such danger, whatever may be happening...
...gaining on us." The whole bit. There is a tantalizing five minutes when it seems the inevitable men with the inevitable plate glass window will negotiate the chase sequence unscathed. But Bogdanovich leaves no stock response untriggered, and the glass is finally shattered as satisfyingly as the cement-layer's sidewalk is ruined. It all ends as predictably as it began. Chaos sifts down to order, boy gets girl, villain gets lost...