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...Uncle Sam for a bailout. The company wants Congress to authorize an unprecedented federal guarantee of a $250 million loan to save its wholly commercial L-1011 plane, a medium-range "airbus" designed to carry 250 passengers. If Congress refuses, the company's management warns that Lockheed will skid into bankruptcy, upsetting a business empire that employs 75,000 people in 26 states. This would add to the unemployment rolls, particularly in California, and dim President Nixon's chances of carrying the state...
...Italian sweet vermouths are simply flavored wines; Greeks add resin to wine to produce retsina. Indeed, products like Thunderbird (a citrus-flavored wine that is 18% alcohol) have been on U.S. shelves for more than a decade. These cheap, more potent brands should continue to sell, mostly to the Skid Row set, despite the pop-wine invasion. What would a serious wino want, after all, with a low-alcohol tipple called Annie Greensprings...
Journey to Sobriety. Most doctors believe that the only alternative to alcoholism is abstinence. Yet the former Skid Rowers are encouraged to frequent the lounge. They are being conditioned either to give up liquor or become social drinkers. Their therapeutic imbibing was suggested by Psychologists Halmuth Schaefer and Mark Sobell, who disagree with the widely held belief that alcoholism is based on a physiological craving. Instead, they say, it is a psychological ailment, a learned response to stress. Unlike normal drinkers, who may react to anxiety by overeating, taking a walk around the block or hitting someone, the alcoholic...
...could be certain whether he was safer indoors or outside. At the Midnight Mission along downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row, Nicolo Difilipantonio, 70, fled into the street-and was killed by chunks of roofing that fell from the aged building. The mission's 200 other occupants were unhurt; they remained inside. In Sylmar, near the quake's epicenter in the San Gabriel Mountains, Linda Daniheux, 25, remained in bed -and died when the ceiling of her room collapsed. En route to install new equipment at a microwave relay station in the mountains, Arthur Mikkelsen, 46, and Milton...
...Salvation Army seems as foursquare and unchanging as the crisp Victorian bonnets still worn by its ladies. It is almost as if Norman Rockwell had painted the scenes on the mind. Bright-smiling women, their cheeks pinked only with the flush of zeal, ladling out free dinners in a Skid Row mission. Clear-eyed men in high military collars, tootling on flügelhorns and euphoniums on chilly street corners. A brisk song, a quaint sermon. A bunk for the stumbling drunk. Even that perennial embarrassment, an outstretched tambourine and a copy of The War Cry thrust suddenly into...