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...paying their heating bills, they plan to spend it cautiously. Fuel and heating bills finally compelled Samuel Trepanier to mothball his truck in his backyard in Clarendon, Vt. When the President announced his program, Trepanier figured: "If the rebate comes to more than $300, I'll get my pickup back on the road...
...knife and fork." For Bang the Drum, DeNiro, who had never played baseball, spent weeks in south Georgia and in spring-training camps in Florida learning the life of a tobacco-chawing Dixie ballplayer. "The first day I got to Georgia," DeNiro recalls, "I met a guy in a pickup truck and he drove me around. I taped his voice, other voices, even the mayor of the town." As for the tobacco, "you get nauseous at first...
...designed to stop all littering through education and citizen participation programs. An especially created Department of Ecology has organized drives to clean up beaches, cities, rivers and mountaintops. To prepare Spokane for Expo '74, for example, 78,000 residents took part in a three-phase litter pickup project that collected 500 tons of trash. The basic theme is pounded home by posters demanding ZERO LITTER, bumper stickers reading LITTER is NO ACCIDENT and even T shirts urging Washingtonians to STOP THE LITTER CRITTER...
...marriages. The exceptions are Carole King, 33, and Carly Simon, 31, who have normal lives simply because they do not tour, and avoid the whole rock world. Known as Mrs. Charles Larkey to her Trousdale Estate neighbors in Los Angeles, Carole King drives her children to school in a pickup and scrupulously shuns all contact with the press and the record industry. When Carly Simon leaves her New York City home and goes on tour, it is to visit her husband James Taylor and maybe join in singing one song...
...Democrats rolled up their largest majority in the House in a decade, the gains were spread thinly but widely across the U.S. Except for an impressive five-seat switch in once-Republican Indiana, the pickup was piecemeal: another five seats in New York's big delegation; four each added in New Jersey and California; mostly singles and doubles, if any, in other states. Yet the net result was a solid 43-member boost for the Democrats, providing a 291-to-144 advantage-big enough for majority leaders to ram through almost any legislation they desire but not so large...