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...part of our staff. When New York Correspondent Marion Knox was assigned to cover the chilly plight of snowbound Buffalo (see THE NATION), she found that trains had stopped running, all highways were shut down, and no flights were landing at the Buffalo airport. Bundled up in her heaviest ski parka, Knox caught a flight to Rochester, the nearest functioning airfield. From there she hopped a truck carrying 35,000 lbs. of frozen veal, part of a two-mile-long caravan taking emergency rations to the stricken city. "Buffalo was a mess," she reports-streets unplowed, cars buried in snow...
Among other items in nationwide short supply and fierce demand in this killing winter are woolen underwear, blankets (wool and electric), flannel shirts, wool socks, parkas, mittens, gloves, mufflers, ski pants, goggles, hand warmers, car batteries, weather stripping, calking guns, firewood, woodburning stoves, electric heaters, and radios with the weather band that tells you how frightful today is going...
...trial was followed by a quick sentencing-and Claudine Longet, convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the gunshot death of her lover, Ski Champ Vladimir ("Spider") Sabich, was condemned to 30 days in the county jail. Although Longet pleaded with Judge George E. Lohr not to separate her from her three "very gentle and open" children, Lohr did not relent. To impose no jail sentence, he said, might "unduly depreciate the seriousness of the offense or undermine respect for the law." Longet chose not to appeal her conviction, but she told a phalanx of reporters that she had been unfortunate...
...Ski Mount Sinai...
...Radcliffe ski team finished an impressive third in a field of seven at St. Lawrence over the weekend in its first Division II appearance...