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...Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority served the city and seven municipalities. The buses were also the vehicle of desegregation for 1,300 of some 5,000 schoolchildren who take them every day. Last October the transit authority tried to close the yearly $1 million deficit by cutting back weekday service and eliminating Sunday service. In addition, it raised the fare from 35? to 80? in just one year. Then it turned to the Alabama legislature, but the lawmakers were not quick enough in finding new solutions. With funds dwindling, the transit authority shut down bus service, laying off 263 people...
Rising costs are McDaniel's biggest concern. He tries to keep his overhead to a minimum by working long hours and closely watching the use of energy. McDaniel opens the shop himself at 7:30 each weekday morning and fires up the boiler that makes steam to press garments. By the tune a helper arrives at 8 a.m., McDaniel has already cleaned a 50-lb. load of clothes and hung them on hangers. His wife helps run the shop, working the counter and mending garments; and all three of their children have also worked there...
Everybody followed the action on radio-which everybody was talking about more and more. The infant NBC-Red Radio Network delivered Amos n' Andy into Dixon living rooms at 6 every weekday night. Radio was such a captivating novelty that even Reagan's maiden effort as sportscaster rated a review in the Davenport Democrat and Leader. He narrated-for $5-Iowa's loss to Minnesota, 21-6, before some 10,000 spectators who had paid $2 to $3 and got rained on. Gushed the critic of Reagan's play-by-play: "His crisp account...
...just about see tumbleweeds blowing across the courtyard. The social life here is terrible compared to college, but mostly we're here to study, not party," Hammond says. Another first-year student, who graduated from Harvard and asked not to be identified, says, "North House, on its deepest, quietest weekday has more going on than Vanderbilt does on the average weekend. Most people who graduated from Harvard flock back to Cambridge on their time off," he says, adding that "others, who have girl friends or boy friends in New England, are willing to travel long distances to get away from...
...North House, on its deepest, quietest weekday has more going on than Vanderbilt does on the average weekend.' --A Harvard graduate and first year student