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...fishermen at a time take to the Lake Erie ice along Jerusalem Township, Ohio, and the shores of Lucas County echo to the noise of chain saws cutting fishing holes. That's how it is on Sunday. Fishermen arrive in force, some driving out onto the ice in pickup trucks to set up the shanties they use for protection, others pulling sledges loaded with equipment and six-packs of beer, still others zinging along in snowmobiles. Temperatures hover around the freezing mark, a moderate offshore wind is blowing out of the southeast. North toward Canada, the ice stretches...
Early Arrivals Chuck Cornell and Don Van Dyke head out across the ice in Chuck's old Datsun pickup. They drive for about five miles, seeking a quiet spot where the fishing won't be interrupted by the noise and clatter of passing snowmobiles. As usual they have chains on their tires. As usual the pickup's doors are flung wide open-so they can bail out at the first sign of the ice breaking up. Last year Don slipped on the ice and fractured his skull, but it does not bother him. Soon they wrestle Chuck...
...chattering helicopter carries him to safety in the closing darkness, Chuck takes a last look at his abandoned Dat sun pickup and shanty...
...coffin at Bethesda. As they watched the motorcade arrive at the front entrance and awaited orders, the gray Navy ambulance carrying the casket sat virtually unattended. Then at 7:05 p.m., Lifton relates, the ambulance suddenly took off at high speed. The honor guard tried to follow in a pickup truck but lost it. Seaman Hubert Clark recalls himself and his mates wondering "where in the hell" the ambulance had gone...
...smaller cars might have been runaway successes. Surveys conducted by both Ford and Chrysler show that 80% of new-model buyers are happy with their purchases.. "I love my Ford Escort," says Judy Siotto, a San Francisco medical assistant. "It has lots of room and great pickup on the hills." Adds William Consavage of West Yarmouth, Mass.: "My Plymouth K-car gets good mileage, and I like its looks...