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...block from the fault, Joe Crevea, 70, and three of his friends on San Juan Bautista's volunteer fire department sit for hours on the "liars' bench" in front of the shoe-repair store. Old Joe guesses he has been in 100 quakes but never walks up to view the fault, fearing the fire alarm may scream while he is gone. His nonchalance is widely shared. "It is like living next to the Mississippi River," says a San Juan Bautista housewife...
Harvard should act more immediately to repair its tremendously strained relations with disgruntled residents. The NOMATEP coalition is embattled. It also owes, by some estimates, several thousand dollars for various legal defenses. But even those who are most resigned to MATEP's operation still bear severe resentment toward Harvard and its clumsy, inconsiderate and heavy-handed fight for MATEP...
...Electriclan in the family, You know, I was just talking to a woman who agreed to look at Basic Wiring because she recently was stuck when a big repair bill when her electrician brother was out of town...
...doctors have come to two conclusions," announced Henry Kissinger, 58, to the throng of reporters at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital. "One, that I do have a heart; second, that it is in need of repair." Kissinger's longtime friend and personal physician, W. Gerald Austen, chief of surgery at Massachusetts General, explained that the operation was to be a triple coronary bypass, in which a major vein from the patient's leg would be used to make detours around the clogged arteries leading to his heart. Kissinger handled the risks diplomatically: he quipped that...
...Laos, to Quang Tri is mostly a dirt track. The only construction projects that have been finished are those that enhance the Soviet image, like the ground satellite stations that allowed direct broadcast of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, or those that have some military application, like a ship-repair facility at Cam Ranh...