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...celebration of Christmas in Gramercy Park seems exactly as it was. Every December the Gramercy Neighborhood Associates hoist a tree on the south side of the park. A party is thrown for all the neighborhood at the National Arts Club. Clothing and toys are collected for the poor. Apartment house entrances are decorated with wreaths and lights. On Christmas Eve, the residents come together in the park around the tree, while a man with a portable organ leads them in bellowing carols against the night...
Like Elway in Denver, Plunkett was thrown instantly into the fire with the New England Patriots, but it was slow burning. "I'd have gone crazy if I didn't play right off," he says, "and it went well the first year. I quarterbacked with reckless abandon, ran a lot, scrambled around, threw on the run. But we just didn't get any better as a club. The second year was miserable. I had never been on a losing team in my life, or experienced such negativism all around me." In the dreary seasons following, Plunkett suffered...
...packing house division of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Anderson can see the damage among his own battered members. The average hourly wages for 110,000 workers have been cut from $10.69 or more to around $8. Some pork and beef workers have been thrown out of work altogether and replaced by nonunion employees who earn as little as $5.50 per hour...
...while May has not scored a clean-cut victory for herself or for the other "little men" and, especially, little women, she has at least thrown a wrench into the workings of the Quayle machine; wrought a bit of anarchy worthy of Sonya's designs. Perhaps that is the best she could hope to do. In May Alto's world--one in which decency, even mere intelligence mark the losers and people like Quayle win the laurels--anarchy becomes a reasonable response. We cannot know whether a real alternative exists; whether Alto actually ever might have succeeded...
...merchandise mix has also been altered. Some 30 slow-moving and less profitable lines, including men's hunting clothes, movie-camera equipment :and automobile air conditioners, have been thrown out. Others have been reorganized...