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...Except in the immediate vicinity of the mountain, livestock escaped almost unscathed. State officials advised ranchers to put out fresh hay so that cattle would not eat the dusty forage in the fields. Ranchers were also told not to move their herds to avoid increasing the cattle's breathing rate and thus their intake of silica-laden dust. Breeders protected valuable race horses by keeping them inside barns with towels over their noses...
Throughout Washington, Idaho and Montana, officials cautioned motorists to stay off the roads except for emergencies because the passage of an auto stirs up clouds of dust that blind other drivers. Motorists also were advised to clean air and oil filters every 20 or 25 miles. Some drivers tied pantyhose over their cars' air filters to help keep out the dust. Nonetheless, insurance companies will soon be deluged with claims from the owners of countless autos whose windshields and finishes were pitted...
...former drug agent who was obsessed with nailing the Angels and was deafened in 1978 by a planted bomb. The newer, younger Hell's Angels turned meaner while Sonny was in jail. "Things changed. The whole world's meaner," he says. Sonny Barger has no regrets - except maybe about the antiwar demonstrators. "I done exactly what I wanted to do, but I haven't done racketeering and murder," he says. "There's been Hell's Angels convicted of murder, but that was on a one-to-one basis, not club policy." - Jane O'Reilly
That would have been that, except for one detail. The certification of new Conservative rabbis is handled in the U.S. by the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. The seminary faculty has grave doubts about whether to ordain women as rabbis. Not, as it happens, for religious reasons, but because they feel that fierce opposition by faculty traditionalists would divide and hence weaken the seminary. The faculty senate last December therefore decided to table action on the matter indefinitely...
...show runs until Sept. 16, and is open to the general public daily except Wednesday. Tickets ($4.50 for adults, $2.50 for students, 75¢ for senior citizens) must be purchased in advance either from MOMA or 600 Ticketron outlets in the U.S. and Canada...