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Still, the Boss was sufficiently uncertain of his musical future to quit school altogether. He enrolled in Ocean County College, showed up in what is still his standard costume-Fruit of the Loom undershirt, tight jeans, sneakers and leather jacket-and was soon invited round for a chat by one of the guidance staff. As Springsteen tells it, the counselor dropped the big question on him immediately. "You've got trouble at home, right...
...though, the money crunch begins anew: the city will have to come up with more than $3 billion over six months to meet a variety of obligations, including past debt coming due. Unless the Administration begins to recognize the urgency of the matter, the specter of default will then loom larger than ever...
...jobs. Novelli intends to streamline and reduce the municipal bureaucracy; he also wants to add 2,000 new classrooms and improve housing. Financing all this will be hard because recession hit Turin heavily. Today unemployment is up 25% from a year ago and is still rising as further cutbacks loom. Transportation will be especially difficult. The mayor wants to give streetcars and buses priority over automobiles, a heretical idea in the Detroit of Italy-Fiat is by far the city's dominant employer. Even Novelli admits that "in Turin, the automobile is like a pagan...
Holly Hill, Orangeburg, Columbia, Clinton-the exits along 1-26 in South Carolina loom in the muggy night like guideposts to ghost towns as the 1958 General Motors coach grinds west. Its odometer creaks past 620,000 miles. The Spartanburg Phillies of the Western Carolinas League-25 eager minor league baseball players-are heading home after losing a night game to the Charleston Pirates. They have not eaten since they left Spartanburg nearly twelve hours ago for the outbound leg of the 420-mile, one-day road trip. Pitcher Jerry Houston and Infielder Raul Nieves are asleep, crammed into...
...press but subsequently shelved-which urged Christians to "respect the religious significance of this link between the people and the land." Tanenbaum and other Jewish leaders are scheduled to meet this week in Rome with their Vatican counterparts, and that link between Jews and Israel will doubtless loom large in their conversations...