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There are gangs in José Cardines' neighborhood. Cardines, 51, arrived in East L.A. when he was 29, the year John Kennedy became President. He speaks no English. But he has become a U.S. citizen, and provides for his wife and six kids with a small auto-body repair shop. Those provisions last month included spending thousands on the traditional coming out, the quinceañera, for his daughter Lucy. "A girl is only 15 once," Cardines said, as Lucy and her 28 attendants boogied to Superfreak in a hotel ballroom...
Slowly, however, a transformation has taken place. The Government spent nearly $3 billion to computerize rail yards, upgrade facilities and repair creaky tracks. With the passage of the Northeast Rail Service Act in August 1981, Conrail was permitted to halt traffic on 2,600 miles of uneconomical track, about 15% of its total route network. Some 22,000 freight-service employees, including 5,000 who had job or severance guarantees, were cut from the payroll at a cost of more than $130 million. Last January, Conrail handed its unprofitable commuter service in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania over...
...cargo bay and toss it overboard; then, after the shuttle swoops around the temporary satellite for some nine hours, Ride and her unique arm will try to grapple it back on board. The experiment is a test of the shuttle's ability to retrieve and repair ailing satellites; at least one of those now in orbit will get shuttle-delivered doctoring on a future mission if Ride is successful...
...Throughout the year, students were forced to evacuate their rooms repeatedly when fire alarms--ten times more frequent than ever before--were set off by a new city-mandated smoke detector system. In a number of cases lingering repair work triggered the alarms...
...most significant change in plans came in October when Harvard accelerated the House renovations, deciding to repair all the buildings in four years instead of the previously planned 10. Spurred by the decline in interest rates and the growing feeling that the structures were in a dangerously dire condition, officials elected to tackle five buildings this spring and summer: Adams House, Claverly Hall, Old Leverett. Old Quincy and the Gore half of Winthrop House. Next summer, officials expect to tackle Dunster. Kirkland and Eliot Houses. In 1985 the projected $50 million endeavor will wind down with repairs in North...