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...KIND of day travelers dread and ticket agents loathe Ram and fog closed airports and delayed traffic across the Northeast for most of the afternoon, but as evening came the ceiling started to lift. At Kennedy Airport's international wing the few ticket agents still at their terminals were looking forward to going home after the long day of fending off customers who had connections or lost their luggage. A half hour before the nine O'clock flight was to leave for London an agitated elderly woman hurried up to the counter. "I'm sorry, this station's, station...
...until mid-July. The front-wheel-drive minivans combine efficient use of interior space, with room for as many as seven passengers, and easy handling. Chrysler's models, named Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager, are 16.7 in. lower and 21 in. shorter than standard vans like the Dodge Ram Wagon. The smaller size and improved aerodynamics created by the minivan's lower profile pay off in fuel economy. The new models get 37 m.p.g. on the highway, compared with 18 m.p.g. for the larger vans. But the new vans can carry only...
...nation's recession-racked industrial heartland. West Virginia, still leading the U.S. in joblessness with an unemployment rate of 15.1%, faced a projected fiscal 1983 deficit of $81.4 million as recently as last January. But thanks to the unflagging efforts of Democratic Governor John D. Rockefeller IV to ram through a $90 million package of spending cuts, the state managed to end the year with a small surplus of $12.4 million...
...That ram avis never appeared. Early on Charles Dickens had expressed his skepticism about spirits: "I have never yet observed them to talk anything but nonsense." Not long afterward, Novelist Samuel Butler decided that "if ever a spirit-form takes to coming near me, I shall not be content with trying to grasp it, but. in the interest of science, I will shoot it." Exposes began to play the vaudeville circuit: Magician Harry Houdini showed audiences that the mysteries of spontaneously moving objects were no more than sleight of hand and, sometimes, foot. The Fox sisters, one of them...
Only stellar teamwork--fired up mostly by the impressive stickwork of newly inserted link Michelle Ippolito--allowed the Crimson to drive down the field with just over a minute left. In front of the Ram goal stood a wide-open Clifton, who timed her shot perfectly with Ippolito's crossing pass to sew up the Crimson victory...