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...been a long winter's journey into February. From Boston and Miami to San Diego and Spokane, with Wilmington, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Dayton, Denver and Las Vegas in between...
Last week West was tramping in the snow of his suburban district, which lies between Philadelphia and Wilmington, still pondering his compulsion to serve his country. He carried along some old-fashioned notions of good manners, honor and duty, some stern dictums from his parents ("Thank God every day for what you've been given . . . don't feel sorry for yourself . . . admit your mistakes, you'll only get back what you give"), and something else. Head down in his wool scarf, puffing steam in the cold, he recalled what he saw in the first months in Nixon...
...Interstate 80 near Blakeslee, Pa., the stoppages spread into Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, New Jersey, New York and Ohio. One of the worst blockades, staged by 350 trucks, backed up traffic as much as twelve miles on roads leading to the Delaware Memorial Bridge in the Philadelphia-Wilmington area...
Also: Ruth H. D'Ambrosio of Dudley House and West Hartford, Conn.; Jennifer R. Goodman of Eliot House and St. Paul, Minn.; Pamela I. Hartzband of Quincy House and Westport, Conn.; Joan K. Isaacson of Adams House and Philadelphia, Pa.; and Marion B. Lennihan of Dudley House and Wilmington, Dela...
Further, cities should follow the lead of Philadelphia and Wilmington, Del., which give abandoned houses free to any body who will fix them up and live in them for a specified number of years. That move could restore huge blighted areas of central cities and accommodate much expected population growth without aggravating suburban sprawl...