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Divorced. Ted Williams, 48, terrible-tempered baseball great; by Lee Howard Williams, 41, ash-blonde ex-fashion model, his second wife; on grounds that "he made life unbearable with constant obscene criticism" (like cursing at her and kicking the tackle box while they were fishing); after five years of marriage, no children; in Miami...
...Song." The ash-blonde daughter of a Montreal cabinetmaker, Forrester has a temperament to match her warm contralto. She is a big bundle of Scotch-Irish joviality, relaxes before a performance almost to the point of limpness. "Nervousness is bad for the breathing," she explains. Besides, "I don't have to live my reviews. I have something else to go home to"-meaning a husband, Canadian Conductor-Violinist Eugene Kash, and five children, aged two to ten. While most female opera singers shun childbirth for fear that it will some how hurt their voices, Mama Maureen insists that...
Traditionally, the first novelist bursts upon the literary scene like a day-old volcano-exploding platitudes, scattering an unbreathable ash of adjectives, devouring cash advances like sacrificial maidens. The noisy thing may turn out to be a mountain or a molehill, but on the chance of producing a verbal Vesuvius most publishers annually sponsor a series of these fictional eruptions, timing them to coincide with the great silence that descends on the book business between July 4 and Labor...
...Should Work. Heart of the Gourdine generator is a pressurized furnace that spews a stream of hot gas and fly ash down a narrow tube. At the mouth of the tube, the bits of ash pass a "corona discharge" electrode, a needlepointed piece of metal that carries so high an electrical potential that it sprays the surrounding space with a supply of positive ions. Picked up by the passing ash as it is boosted along by the hot gas, those ions move down the tube creating, in effect, an electric current. The electrical resistance that develops is overcome...
...pestilent congregation consists of 230,000 tons of soot, fly ash and other paniculate matter, 597,000 tons of sulphur dioxide, 298,000 tons of nitrogen oxides, 567,000 tons of hydrocarbons and 1,536,000 tons of carbon monoxide annually. It leaves every New Yorker with 730 Ibs. of pollutants to contend with every year...