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Until they got to know the trainmen, the two widows could scarcely have been more isolated. Their three-room cottage sits up in the sere San Bernardino Mountains, on the desert's run northeast of Los Angeles. They have no car or telephone; their mailbox is a mile and a half down a dusty track filled with gulleys and rattlesnakes. But every day a Southern Pacific freight snakes uphill just 25 yds. from their door. For the past five years, Ronnie McGillick, 67, and Loretta Tumulty, 74, have been giving cookies to the train crews. So far, they have...
Bruised Knuckles. The Administration recognizes that the housing industry needs special help if it is to survive the crunch, and last week the White House began providing some. Ford signed into law the Brooke-Cranston bill, a measure that will pump $7.75 billion of federal funds into the sere U.S. residential mortgage market over the next twelve months. Earlier, the President had urged Congress to make available only $3 billion to federal agencies that in effect lend the money to home buyers at below-market interest rates. Some builders have talked themselves into believing that once the elections are over...
...buried just beneath the sere landscape in easily accessible formations, is less than 200 yds. from an area known in aboriginal religion as Gabo Djang (the Dreaming Place of the Green Ants). The aborigines believe that if the hallowed ground is desecrated, the insects giving the place its name will turn into man-eating monsters that will ravage the world...
...stock market, Rip learns, has hit 1000, yet the go-go funds and glamour conglomerates are a sere and withered group. Unfamiliar newsworthies are summoned to his attention: Mary Jo Kopechne, Clifford Irving, Arthur Bremer, Vida Blue, Archie Bunker, Angela Davis, Daniel Ellsberg. There are new countries leaping up from the headlines, nations born while he was away...
...during World War II, 10 per cent were black. But in dividing this total, one finds a vast racial gap between those imprisoned and put in CPSC. One per cent of the total of those put in CPSC were black (122 out of 11,896). Of those who sere sent to prison, 18.1 per cent were black (2.208 out of 12.183). To look at the totals another way, 45 per cent of the white war objectors were imprisoned, while 95 per cent of the blacks were sent to prison...