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...sorry that "hard times" have come to Texas [Sept. 27]. Ironically, I recall a hit record of 1972-73 called Freeze a Yankee that sang the praises of Texans and Arabs who were squeezing the Northeast by cutting off oil supplies. I can still hear the whoops and hollers of Texans who thought it screamingly funny that those damyankees were getting theirs...
Choi said the event "brings a lot of contact among Asian college students throughout the Northeast. "Friendships fostered by the contact also encourage the students to strengthen their links of cultural awareness, he added...
...generation ago, a national rail strike might have paralyzed the country. Last week's walkout, however, was no crippler: both the sluggish economy and the diminishing role of rail transport blunted its impact. In the Northeast, service was relatively unaffected since the region's major line, Conrail, was not struck by the engineers. The Southern and the Family Lines systems, the two major railroads in the South, drafted supervisors and other skilled personnel to operate the trains, and most major runs were made...
Both sides have viable cases. MIT officials point out that the market is now calling for research and development and other white collar office uses. They correctly say that the old urban manufacturing firms of the Northeast have gone elsewhere, with no plans to return. They further argue that although commonly associated with white collar industry MIT itself employs more blue collar technicians than it does professors...
...language and geography. But painstaking diplomacy, conducted among as many as 18 denominations that existed a century ago, produced by 1963 a melding into two giant branches: the American Lutheran Church (A.L.C.), a power in the Midwest; and the Lutheran Church in America (L.C.A.), with substantial membership in the Northeast...