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Many of the Crescent personnel also are younger than they used to be. The Washington-to-Atlanta sleeping-car porter is amiable John Fox, a 29-year-old Bahamian. The chef who takes over in Atlanta confides that he is "25 years, six months and five days old." Not that the old guard has changed entirely. Grizzled Luther King, the black sleeping-car porter who replaces Fox in Atlanta, is a kindly, dignified gentleman, typical of the old Pullman employee. He has worked the rails since 1942, when he made $150 a month; now he makes a guaranteed...
...Thirty Years' War." It has indeed been 30 years since the first attempt to deregulate gas prices, but this last battle began 13 months ago, when the President sent his energy proposals to Congress. The conference committee had been wrestling with the problem for six months...
...House basically agreed with his plan, but the Senate voted to remove regulation. Drawing from both proposals, the conference decided to raise the price immediately to $1.75 and remove controls in stages, ending them by 1985. The compromise permits either Congress or the President, after a six-month wait, to reimpose controls for 18 months until...
Amstutz destroyed the transmitter, and he and his wife Elsie spent the next six days praying for rescue, while rebels ranged up and down the street, occasionally firing random barrages into their house...
...Redmen managed only six hits, but they came when they were needed, and three quick Harvard errors gave them the game...