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...deals had been with DeRosa, who had bought a Vermont ski lodge from the former horse trainer in 1977. DeRosa, however, had fallen behind in his payments, and now it might have come time for Jacobson to ask for a favor. Police speculate that DeRosa, attaché case in hand, brought a gray suit to the House of Detention and a razor for Jacobson to shave off his distinctively droopy mustache. Without the mustache, one police officer said of the fugitive, Jacobson looks "very forgettable." DeRosa has since been indicted, and is being held on $500,000 bail...
...century, Judelson projects electric-car production of 6.6 million vehicles a year, about 40% of the total. If so, then EVs would regain the prominence they had at the turn of the century, when nearly 40% of all cars were electric. Detroit's experienced carmakers, on the other hand, obviously do not think the market is that big, but Detroit has been wrong before. If the EV renaissance that G&W is talking about comes to pass, it could save 225 million bbl. of oil a year, even allowing for some oil-generated electricity to charge the cars...
...taken by job applicants at Florida's Pinellas County school board (St. Petersburg, Clearwater) are not encouraging. Since 1976, the board has required teacher candidates to read at an advanced tenth-grade level and solve math problems at an eighth-grade level. Though all had their B.A. in hand, about one-third of the applicants (25% of the whites, 79% of the blacks) flunked Pinellas' test the first time they took...
...networks can satisfy. "Because of ratings pressure, they tend to dwell on catastrophe-dictators assassinated, seagulls covered with oil, volcanoes erupting, charred bodies," he says. ''The only time they tell you what's going on in Washington is when some Senator has gotten caught with his hand in the till...
Also missing is Latham's original point about the place and its habitues, which was a downer. He said it offered hardhats from the nearby refineries a chance to escape from their harsh, boring, workaday reality into a fantasy that was simultaneously readymade and hand-me-down. Duding up each night in western duds that no working cowboy would ever wear, the clock punchers also slip into a set of values that are as impractical for modern urban life as a pair of chaps. For a little while each night in Gilley's, they can play at being...