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...metropolitan Chicago, 16 deaths were attributed to the weather. One of the hypothermia victims was Bertha Heart, 80, who had somehow survived two previous winters without heat in her shabby South Side apartment. Peoples Gas had shut off her gas service in 1979. Explained a company spokesman: "She did not keep to her payment arrangements." Furnace repairmen, Illinois Bell Telephone (which in one day logged 613,000 calls to its Chicago weather information number, six times more than normal) and travel agents, among others, all had as many customers as they could handle. Said Travel Agent Jason Hess...
...only a few of the surprising conclusions in Places Rated Almanac (Rand McNally; $11.95 paperback), by Richard Boyer and David Savageau. The authors, who live in small Massachusetts communities not mentioned in their book, spent four years on research. The result: a 386-page study that rates 277 U.S. metropolitan areas on the basis of such factors as climate, housing, crime, transportation, education, recreation, the arts, taxes and jobs. Boyer, a former editor, and Savageau, an executive headhunter, rank each area only on statistics. Such nonmeasurable considerations as a city's charm or the quality of its restaurants...
Pitched in Damrosch Park, right next to the Metropolitan Opera House, it is a reminder of an almost forgotten time, when performing troupes were small enough to carry their houses with them...
...seeking dumping privileges at a city landfill. Biaggi denied any such deal, saying: "It didn't happen." Similarly, Masselli is alleged to have sought the help of Carmine De Sapio, 73, a former New York City Democratic leader, in leasing a dump site from the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority. A man claiming to be an intermediary told Masselli that the help of De Sapio would cost about $20,000. De Sapio refused to comment on the matter...
...Japanese art of wood-block prints flourished in the late 18th century when masters like Kitagawa Utamaro illustrated kyoka, a form of comic verse. In A Chorus of Birds (Metropolitan Museum of Art-Viking; unpaginated; $17.95), the season's most unusual book, Utamaro's animated sparrows and hawks, roosters and owls move through a fused world of nature, art and literature. A further enchantment: the volume is not conventionally bound; the accordion-pleated illustrations open into a 30-ft. frieze...