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...beginning of the end for the protest came in December during a chance meeting between Niels Christiansen, Nestlé's director of research, and Douglas Johnson, head of the principal boycott group, on a Philadelphia-New York train. They concluded that their differences were slight. In the final agreement, Nestlé promised to promote breast feeding as superior to formula and to warn of the hazards of misuse on graphic labels that can be understood by people who cannot read...
...dismay of most participants, during the hypothetical crisis the U.S. Energy Department did not move to control supplies or limit the price of oil. As a result, U.S. oil prices zoomed to a theoretical $98 per bbl., with gasoline priced at $2.83 per gal. As Wisconsin Energy Administrator Roy Christiansen recalls: "The Feds didn't seem to be concerned, or want to deal with it." During the game, Wisconsin energy officials telexed Washington: "We hope it will not take the economic collapse of one of these cities . . . before the Administration realizes that its [noninterventionist] policies have failed and must...
...rapidly growing mound of pig literature includes a racy paperback cartoon book called Pigs in Love (Clarkson N. Potter; $3.95), about Porkov and Daisy, whose amours are described as "an adult love story for pigs and sows everywhere." The author-artist, Revilo (real name: Oliver Christiansen), was originally commissioned to do a cat book but found felines "too aloof." Says...
...blast and its timing surprised scientists. They are still not much closer to predicting when a volcano of the St. Helens type will blow; scientists have had much better luck with volcanoes in Hawaii. But the effort has hardly been a waste of time. Says U.S.G.S. Geologist Robert Christiansen: "It has taught us that volcanic hazards are real in the U.S." More probing will be done in November at a NASA conference about the atmospheric and climatic effects of Mount St. Helens, with a view to decoding whatever messages the volcano sent on that fateful May day when the earth...
Also in the Good Signs for the Future Department was the junior varsity's 52-51 victory over Yale on Lori Christiansen's jump shot with 17 seconds remaining...