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...B.W.R. Training Center has all the marks of a topnotch engineering school. Cutaway reactor models line its cinder-block corridors. Classrooms contain charts, overhead projectors and closed-circuit TV systems. Instructors, identified by the hand calculators in their shirt pockets, lecture on everything from nuclear physics and chemistry to radiation safety. But students look older, more intent than most collegians...
...brooding presence dominates Maui. The crater of 10,000-ft.-high Haleakala (pronounced Hah-lee-ah-kah-lah) is seven miles long, two miles across and half a mile deep. While it has almost no vegetation save for patches of glistening silversword, the crater is dotted with rose-tipped cinder cones, evidence of minor eruptions over the centuries. It resembles nothing so much as a lunar landscape, and indeed was used as an off-off-planet tryout by the astronauts who made the first moon landing. The center of a 28,000-acre national park, Haleakala can be traversed...
...Wilmot Doctors Clinic is situated in half of a shabby, cinder-block building just off the main street. In the other half is a nursing home owned by the mayor. Since Dr. De left for Michigan in December 1977, Dr. Bui has been running the clinic alone. In May, with the approval of the town, he resigned from the Health Service Corps and the clinic is now a private facility. "He has his own business now. How large it grows depends on how hard he wants to work," says Mayor Place. "We are trying to make him as happy...
From East Africa to Capitol Hill, a lot of lofty political leaders have a working relationship with Businessman James Wilmot. James who? His name is scarcely a household word even on his upstate New York turf. But Wilmot's otherwise unprepossessing office, in a cinder-block building at the edge of the Rochester airport, contains a profusion of photographs showing him with people in high places...
Dreary possibilities lurked everywhere in World Cup statistics before the two finalists emerged. One was that Brazil's team, a cinder of its old self, could reach the final by playing its third scoreless tie in six games, and by scoring only five goals and winning only two games in the entire tournament. During the enchanted years of the great Pele, Brazil won the World Cup three times-1958, 1962 and 1970-but the marvelous flair for which it was legendary has been dampened by age and a disciplinarian coach, Claudio Coutinho, who admires the rough and rigidly patterned...