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Meanwhile, the blight of fair weather in the West has proved to be a bonanza for ski areas in the Northeast. These areas are operating at near capacity as vacationers switch to New England and upstate New York. To cap their good luck, last Wednesday some ski areas in the Northeast were hit by a near blizzard...
Large panes of glass from the roof of the northeast wing of the Science Center had collapsed under the weight of the snow piled on them, and fallen about 25 feet to the floor below...
Lewis A. Law, technical director of the Science Center, said Friday that this kind of damage had happened last Christmas vacation in the Science Center cafeteria, and in the northeast wing in 1975. The cafeteria roof was replaced this November with polycarbonite, which passed safety tests that the glass failed...
...political prisoner ever traded by the Soviets, Bukovsky, 33, had just been swapped for Chilean Communist Luis Corvalán (TIME, Dec. 27). A native of a small town in eastern Russia, Bukovsky was serving a seven-year sentence for "anti-Soviet agitation " in Vladimir Prison, about 100 miles northeast of Moscow, when he was unexpectedly flown to Switzerland. In his flower-decorated Zurich hotel room, Bukovsky last week gave an interview to TIME Paris Bureau Chief Gregory H. Wierzynski and Geneva Correspondent Robert Kroon. Their report...
...election map tells part of the story. For the first time since 1944, the South was solid again, or nearly so; of the eleven Southern states, all but Virginia came home to the Democratic Party. In the Northeast, most of the populous industrial states-dominated by elements of the coalition-also returned. Throughout the country, blacks, who never left the party, gave Carter overwhelming margins. Union members voted in large numbers for the Democratic candidate. The Irish, Jews and Eastern Europeans were back in the fold, though in smaller numbers than the Democrats had hoped. Italians, perhaps...