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...ways of coping are as varied as the crisis. With so many cars marooned in the snow, like beasts stricken in their tracks, people ply the icy city streets in snowmobiles. Railroad engineers thaw out frozen whistles with flares and blowtorches. A Burger King in Camden County, N.J., is the envy of the competition. It serves customers twelve hours every day at 70° because it is heated by solar power. In Pittsburgh, a discotheque called Reflections has a sign on the door: THIS ESTABLISHMENT is WARMED BY BODY HEAT...
Anxiety too. Says Union Leader McHugh: "I don't see a way for the company to stay open without LAMPS." President Stuverude, noting that Vertol has diversified into making railroad cars, scoffs at such talk as "a bunch of conjecture." Besides, he says firmly, "we are going to win LAMPS." Maybe-but the design will be based on UTTAS, and the main competitor once again is Sikorsky...
...brute force of nature. The scenes of hundreds swimming through storm waves in downtown Providence, of thousands fighting back flood waters in New London, Conn., of train crews outracing deadly tidal waves and of desperate sailors straining to keep their 1000-ton vessel from from running aground on inland railroad tracks--while perhaps not elegantly presented--are still awesome. To look for some deep meaning in a book like this seems absurd; what it presents is not a search for truth, but a portrayal of the more basic pursuit of survival...
...check would be mailed for each taxpayer, spouse, child and other dependent included on the 1976 income tax returns. Thus a family of four would receive $200; a family of seven, $350. Checks would also go to all Social Security and Railroad Retirement beneficiaries, and to families too poor to pay taxes, if they filed to receive earned-income credits (tax overpayments that are returned). In all, the payments would total $11.4 billion...
...Behave yourself now," Jimmy Carter admonished his high school classmate Virginia Williams in front of the white clapboard railroad depot. "And if you get in trouble, don't call me." Then Virginia, her husband Frank and 380 other Plains folk boarded the 18 red-blue-and-silver cars of the Peanut Special-an Amtrak train leased for fun and bound for glory. At exactly 1 p.m., as Jimmy stood in the windy 10° F. weather, waving a gloved hand and flashing the famous teeth, the Peanut Special began to pull away from Plains-the first passenger train...