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Adults and offspring learn to respect and cherish their neighbors, who may live only four feet away. In emergencies-a ruptured water line, a balky motor, a hidden leak, suspicious intruders-boat owners of necessity lean on one another. There are no class distinctions or keeping-up-with-yawl in a marina. Says Manhattan-based Les Torgensen, 45, a writer and boat dealer who ran away to sea when he was 15: "The beauty of boat dwelling here is that we've got small-town living in the heart of a big city...
...Holmes' one-room country store, three worn couches, a board placed on milk cases, and a few wooden chairs make a circle around a Buckeye 135 wood stove. The room is filled with people. The walls are lined with canned goods and staples like salt, sugar, cornmeal and motor oil. A blue denim jacket hangs from one shelf, and a few feet below it hangs a new white T shirt with green lettering that proclaims NOT BY A DAM SITE. A middle-aged woman with a hesitant voice and bright blue eyes is speaking: "I'm sure there...
...cars have ideas? The motor designers say no. But they mean under ordinary conditions. Have they foreseen everything...
...such moves become necessary. The most likely step: limiting the crude oil and gasoline made available to refiners and dealers. Another possibility is the mandatory closing of gasoline stations on Sundays and evenings. However, Schlesinger ruled out, at least for now, any resort to outright rationing of motor fuel...
...decision that could have wide implications for corporations, an Indiana superior court judge last week refused to dismiss a homicide indictment against the Ford Motor Co. Unless Ford gets the decision overturned on appeal, the company will be tried on charges of reckless homicide. The charges, brought by a county grand jury, stem from an August 1978 accident involving a 1973 Pinto. Three girls died in the car when it burst into flames after being slammed in the rear...