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...newsmen shouted, Kilduff sought out an empty room with a friend. The scrap of paper with its devastating message quivered like a leaf in his fingers. He lighted a cigarette. Then something broke. "I saw that man's head," he sobbed. "I couldn't believe it. I nearly died...
Last year it was Harvard and Yale fighting for the right to wear the Ivy crown. This year, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania will scrap in Ithaca...
...what are the thieves doing with their booty? Taking advantage of a recent boom in recycling, which generates an estimated $700 million a year, by selling it to scrap dealers who lately have raised their prices. Last year in Detroit, the price of aluminum leaped from 20 cents to 45 cents per lb. "When they go to the scrapyard," fumes Detroit community activist Pat Bosch, "no questions are asked." For law-abiding citizens already beleaguered by drug- trafficking, arson and the indifference of the city administration, aluminum thievery is the last straw. "They're devastating the city," complains Sophie Sroczynski...
...whether a certain gesture would be appropriate. "Hey, Roger . . . does . . . on, on this, you know, if I'm gonna, if I, if I decide on my gesture over there . . . is that all right . . . you don't mind?" Because they had been caught rehearsing it, Quayle's handlers decided to scrap the "tearing America down" line of attack. Instead, Quayle substituted his own line about America being "the envy of the world," a bromide he has been repeating on the stump...
...inability of many young couples to afford a home or reliable child care, even on two paychecks. And he is getting a friendly response from many people in the Central Valley who, like the middle class all over the country, are feeling squeezed. Michael Archer, 42, drives a scrap truck for a rendering plant, while his wife Janie works as a waitress in a coffee shop. Their three children, two boys and a girl in their 20s, are all married with children and all working at dead-end jobs: grocery clerk, bartender, waitress. "You can't raise a family...