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...laid to "some extraneous element like a skunk or a fox (a taxpayer in neither town) rather than a dog, and as far as your justices know, the matter is still 'under advisement.' " So is just about everything else. "Nobody knows what to do with the pile of old complaints and warrants accumulated over 14 years, and nobody has the courage to throw them away." They will doubtless endure for the delight of "some archaeologist digging in the remains of Amherst." As for himself, says Justice Lincoln, it feels great to be "relieved of the necessity of maintaining...
...scene achieved with 140 charges of dynamite, nine cameras, several dozen expendable engines and boxcars purchased from French National Railroads, and considerable ingenuity on the part of Special Effects Ace Lee Zavitz (who arranged the burning of Atlanta in 1939's Gone With the Wind). Another stunning pile-up is followed by regularly scheduled derailments, all studied with a fond eye for the mechanics of sabotage. At last, face to face beside a clutter of wooden crates and human bodies, the two foes meet in what is clearly intended as a moment of supreme dramatic irony. But The Train...
...industry has converted from open-hearth furnaces, which use up to 45% scrap metal, to oxygen furnaces, which use only 27% scrap. The price an auto wrecker gets for his scrap has fallen to around $10 a car, with the result that many wreckers have allowed car carcasses to pile up, in hopes of a rise in the market. One hopeful cure for this national eyesore was proposed this month by Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall, who announced that the Bureau of Mines has developed a new process that uses scrapped autos to upgrade nonmagnetic iron ore and make...
Worst affected by exhaust fumes are the eager tailgaters who cause the many-car pile-ups for which the free ways are famous. "The way to get the biggest dose," says Haagen-Smit, "is to keep as close as one can to the car ahead of you. The fellow who does that gets the most carbon monoxide, also the most lead, oxides of nitrogen, carcinogens, everything...
Effects of the strike will linger for weeks. When the I.L.A. struck for 34 days two years ago, it took a month to clear up the log jam of freight in New York. This time, said port officials, the pile-up is so much bigger-dozens of ships, unable to find berth space, have been anchored in the harbor-that eight weeks may be required to clear it away...