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...edible and on the certain knowledge that in a New Hampshire family, what has been cooked as food, however pulpy and woeful, must be eaten. Woodpiling is a form of boastfulness left over from colonial times, and it consists of erecting in plam sight an unnecessarily large and stately pile of cordwood, with plumb sides and flashy square corners. Such a fortress wrests envy, respect and despair, as it is intended to, from all New Hampshire males and a good many homesteading females who have not yet bucked, split and stacked their own supply of wood for the winter...
What buildings do remain stand agape and hollow. There is no broken glass in the windows, because there is no glass in the windows at all. The garbage in the doorways is not a pile but a growth. On a street north of Charlotte a green Chevy lies on its back like a cleaned fish. Such things are seen not only in the South Bronx but also in Harlem and the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, formerly a Jewish ghetto, now black. These areas too are worse off than they were four years ago. From a tenement roof in Long...
Some of Detroit's warts were highly visible last week. Even as parking-lot operators were putting out potted geraniums to brighten the city's face for visitors, some 425 striking sanitation workers let garbage pile up along the streets. Bus mechanics, too, were on strike, forcing the collapse of local service that carries 200,000 people daily?although some residents claim the system has long been so poor that no one can tell the difference. In all, about 8,400 striking municipal workers (out of 21,700) tried to use the convention as a club to beat the city...
...stressing the theme "Now We Are One." The VA actually opened up eleven graves and found only a few relics inside. Says Albright: "The dead had no uniforms, no identification, no nothing. So what's wrong with a common grave as long as you just don't pile them in all together...
After promising to put NBC at the top of the ratings pile by the end of 1980, Silverman is presiding over disaster. This past season NBC lagged far behind its competitors in ratings, finishing the season with 17.4 Nielsen points, compared with 19.6 for CBS and 19.5 for ABC. The morning Today show, once an NBC stalwart, now trails ABC'S Good Morning America. Silverman's new daytime offering, the David Letterman Show, has fared so poorly that Silverman has already fired three producers. The latest executive calamity comes at the same time as the start...