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...Manhattan, Charlie Garcia picked up ten dead paupers from the morgue at Bellevue Hospital. All the dead were adults, so they were in adult pine coffins, which cost the city $32.90 each. The price includes a tar-paper lining and a handful of zinc nails with which to seal the top. The cheap wooden boxes were placed in the back of Charlie's vehicle, which is still called the body wagon, although these days the wagon is an 18-ft. Ford truck, blue and gray, license number 20898-E, with 106,892 miles on the odometer. Nearly...
...continuing to sound alarms about the wasteful way past funds have been spent. Last fall a leaked report, prepared by Air Force auditors at Oklahoma's Tinker Air Force Base, showed astounding increases in the price of aircraft engine parts made by Pratt & Whitney: a turbine air seal for an F-111 fighter-bomber, for example, soared from $16 to $3,033.82 in one year. These findings touched off a broader study by the Pentagon's inspector general's office. Last week a leak of the resulting draft concluded that Air Force and Navy purchasing practices encourage...
...controversy erupted this school year when Black students insisted that the university symbols--the Confederates flag as the seal, "Dixie" as the fight song, and Col. Rbel (a Southern colonel in white goatee and gray tails) as the mascot--were racist and should be scrapped. The chancellor responded by stopping the distribution of flags before sporting events, but white alumni and students started producing them privately and passing them out before games. The debate over the meaning of the symbols is a reasonable one: just as the Confederacy represented a society degrading and oppressive to Blacks, it was unique culture...
...trying to soften up their withdrawal routes for the time when a pullout is arranged. But Moscow was hardly taking any chances. In Ghazni, south of Kabul, some 10,000 Soviet troops, along with ground and air support, were reportedly massed in preparation for a maneuver to seal off the border with Pakistan...
...every year. Many are signed photos of Hitler, which, if genuine, are worth from $350 to $ 1,000 to collectors. Such photo forgeries are often simple to detect because Hitler rarely signed a picture unless it had been taken by his personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, who stamped a distinctive seal on his photos...