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...others. The construction of facilities, which is generally done by a veritable army of subcontractors under the direction of the utility, is often poorly supervised. The result of this laxness is work that can best be described as shoddy. Some of the earthquake supports for California's Diablo Canyon plant were installed backward, as was the reactor vessel at the San Onofre plant near San Diego. Reactor supports at Comanche Peak in Texas were installed 45° out of position. Pipes inside and outside the reactor building at Shoreham on Long Island, N.Y., failed to meet properly...
...American phone network and the AT&T divestiture are collections of superlatives. After all, the Bell System has spread telephones just about everywhere imaginable in America, from the bottom of the Grand Canyon to the 106th floor of New York City's World Trade Center. Americans make more than 800 million phone calls a day and have twice as many telephones (183 million) as home toilets (87 million...
...suspicious throughout the film we see the pressure gradually build up. At the first dinner with in-laws, she trips up on questions about vineyard:-- that she studied in California with her late husband--about his work, about how they met. "I was staring down into the Grand Canyon when he touched me on the shoulder." She stammers trying to recall what Patricia had said on the train."...no, we were in an art gallery: he didn't like it much...", after which she rushes out, in tears, before the baffled in-laws...
Sustained rains so desperately needed in the corn belt were causing havoc in the deserts of Southern California, Nevada and Arizona. Nine Italian tourists and their pilot were killed when a small plane crashed in a thunderstorm near the Grand Canyon. Four other people were killed in accidents related to the freak August cloudbursts in the Southwest. Among them were two motorists who were caught in flash floods that swept through San Bernardino, 65 miles east of Los Angeles. Four inches of rain fell in four hours in the desert area...
...climbing frozen waterfalls and skiing slopes too steep to stand on, and in exploring underwater, with scuba gear, caves so deep that helium must be mixed with the oxygen that is breathed, to forestall nitrogen narcosis. A couple of canoeists have just lined their craft up the Grand Canyon and portaged the Rockies. An unemployed actress named Julie Ridge swam twice around Manhattan Island this summer (about 28 miles); although the publicity did not bring her a job, she said she felt better about herself...