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...police helicopters patrolled overhead. Officials held their breaths as the spacecraft and its transporter-47.6 meters (153 ft.) long and 23.8 meters (78 ft.) wide -moved along East 10th Street through Palmdale and adjoining Lancaster. At one point, Rockwell workers had to rush forward with a chain saw to lop off a traffic sign in order to permit the shuttle to slip through. But even with such precautions, the clearance for the ship was often only a matter of inches. Still, the eleven-hour move went off without a hitch. Townspeople turned out enthusiastically to watch the shuttle pass. "Weird...
...personal stakes are high. This is particularly true for the unelected President. One of his campaign aides concedes they first ran an "essentially negative campaign" against Reagan, assailing his proposal to lop $90 billion off the federal budget. But in his first campaign foray into New Hampshire two weeks ago, Ford turned more positive and presidential. On his budget, for example, he demonstrated his impressive grasp of its complexities, although his speeches were unexciting...
...national food sales has dropped from 8.5% in 1965 to 5.8% now, which means that A. & P. has yielded its No. 1 sales position to California-based Safeway. A. & P. had too many stores; many were small and unprofitable, but until recently management did not have the nerve to lop them off. In December, however, Jonathan Scott, 45-year-old head of the Idaho-based Albertson's Inc. chain, was signed on as A. & P.'s first chief executive from the outside, and he has been making the old firm's bones rattle...
...self-sufficient system within this decade. Under the plan, a private but federally backed company called Consolidated Rail Corp. (Conrail) would carry out the largest corporate reorganization in history: it would take over and consolidate the operations of the bankrupt Penn Central and six other troubled roads. Conrail would lop off about 30% of the combined roads' rail network, unless affected states could come up with 30% of the required subsidies. It would also spend more than $9.3 billion in federal and private funds in a 15-year rehabilitation program. The Railway Association's chairman, Arthur D. Lewis...
...days the station leapfrogged from nearly last to first in the citywide audience ratings. Two years later, KGB's chief competitor, station KCBQ, hired Bennett. Within a month KCBQ had regained its supremacy among the all-important 12-to 17-year-old audience and replaced KGB in the lop slot...