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...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, people carting groceries home on sleds. "The very fact of being there made you part of the people. 'You stuck here too?' someone would ask, and he'd start right out telling...
...ways of coping are as varied as the crisis. With so many cars marooned in the snow, like beasts stricken in their tracks, people ply the icy city streets in snowmobiles. Railroad engineers thaw out frozen whistles with flares and blowtorches. A Burger King in Camden County, N.J., is the envy of the competition. It serves customers twelve hours every day at 70° because it is heated by solar power. In Pittsburgh, a discotheque called Reflections has a sign on the door: THIS ESTABLISHMENT is WARMED BY BODY HEAT...
Sixth child of a struggling Kentucky coal-mine operator, Kreps earned a bachelor's degree at Berea College, which described itself as a "selfhelp" school for the poverty-stricken coal-mining region. "The spirit of the place," she recalls, "was one of independence, self-reliance, high-level integrity and academic excellence. It made a deeper impression on me than did my childhood." Kreps took her advanced degrees in economics at Duke. There she met her husband Clifton, now a professor of banking at the nearby University of North Carolina. The couple, married for 32 years, frequently entertain students...
...Sharon, Mass. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Griffin began his practice in Sharon in 1901, making house calls by horse and buggy (his fee: $1.50). The doctor was a firm believer in the curative powers of fresh air and exercise. During the 1918 influenza epidemic. Griffin advised 400 stricken patients to open their windows, take fever-reducing medicine and get out of bed as quickly as possible. His widow recalls that only one died...
Family Tree. She feels closest kinship with an aunt who once disgraced her village by bearing an illegitimate child, then killing herself and the baby. This interest is rebellious, for the aunt's name has been stricken from the family tree. Yet this woman without a name dared to defy the village by acting and suffering alone. Her niece-50 years later and in another country-knows that she must live similarly alone. "I'm going away," she finally lashes out at Brave Orchid. "And at college I'll have people I like for friends...