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...federal legislation spelled out the first uniform, national standards for truck weights and measurements. It allows trucks up to 80,000 Ibs. in weight, 102 in. wide and 56 ft. long (plus the cab) to operate the full length of the 42,268-mile interstate system. The law also requires each state to designate other highways that could handle these loads...
...traumas range from fear of death to family split-ups. In Middletown, across the Susquehanna River from Three Mile Island, a ten-year-old boy trembled and broke out in sweat more than a year after the accident; he was convinced that he had contracted leukemia. The Rev. David Newhart, a Middletown pastor, has witnessed several marital breakups. Says he: "Just the question of whether to relocate causes great problems. The wife is mainly concerned about the children, while the husband is worried about finding a new job and supporting the family...
...thing all sides agree: trust has been a major casualty of the Three Mile Island accident. Some residents blame the authorities for allowing the mishap in the first place, while others believe they have been misled about its seriousness. To regain their trust, the utility has assembled a 32-person public information staff and says it reports even the most minute trace of suspect radiation. Says Communications Manager Doug Bedell: "The legacy of mistrust and distrust is very real and all we can do is slog along and be straightforward." But he has a lot to overcome...
Every Tuesday night a tall, lean man with a white mustache arrives at a darkened and building about a mile northwest of the White House and jams a package into a crack between the glass doors of the entrance. In red crayon the package is marked the New Republic (whose offices are on the second floor), but addressed to no one in particular there; it is signed TRB. The need for secrecy vanished years ago-everyone knows that TRB's Washington column is written by Richard L. Strout of the Christian Science Monitor-but Strout is a meticulous...
Before the women's mile relay the score stood at 61-61; the event had no bearing on the overseas venture, just the meet on hand Harvard's Sigrid Gabler led off and stayed even with her Yale counterpart until the handoff. When the Yale quartet went ahead for good...