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Vermont ski executives blame their troubles as much on a fairly snowless winter as on the gasoline crunch. Yet in western Massachusetts, which was covered with snow last week, the slopes are still underpopulated. Said Ted Trombley as he surveyed the empty parking lot of his Yankee Motor Lodge near Pittsfield: "Up until now we could blame the weather. But with this gorgeous weekend we just had, we're still off 50%, so we know the problem...
Beeping Sound. The dream mailboy is a completely automated cart with 20 mail compartments. It runs on four rubber wheels and is driven by a battery-powered electric motor. Electrical sensors in the cart pick up low-frequency radio signals from wires that are strung under the carpets along the desired route. Following their path, the 500-lb. robot stops when its photoelectric sensing system picks up signal lights bounced off reflective tiles strategically placed on corridor walls at knee level...
...Toyota and the Nissan Motor companies have also donated $1 million each toward the center...
PRICES. The Commerce Department announced another sharp jump in retail fuel prices during December, ranging from 4.4% for gasoline to 11.4% for home heating oil. Americans now pay about 20% more than they did a year ago for gasoline and motor oil, and nearly 47% more for heating oil. Many people are paying even more than that; Internal Revenue Service agents found that an astounding four out of every ten gas stations that they visited in California and New York were overcharging by as much...
Just how much William needed Louise became evident during their two-year courtship. On a motor trip through Maine in the summer of '59, he got her to help him steal three brand-new canoes and a trailer. By the time they were married on New Year's Day, 1960, she had evolved from a dutiful daughter, honor student and respected Chicago schoolteacher into an accomplished shoplifter and companion of an obviously disturbed...