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...same time, downtown Detroit is being transformed by a building boom. The biggest addition to the skyline is the much heralded Renaissance Center, completed at a cost of $350 million in 1977 by a consortium led by Henry Ford II. A cluster of five glass towers next to the Detroit River, "Ren Cen" consists of a 73-story hotel, the world's tallest, and four 39-story office buildings. More than 90% of the office space has been rented, and the complex's shopping arcade, which includes elegant boutiques such as Courreges, Ungaro and Cartier, has brought...
...those on the ground, the jumpers are hard to see at first as they pour from the plane, but within three or four seconds you can spot them, the sun reflecting off their jumpsuits as they cluster. They become larger, better defined as they fall closer-8,000 ft., 6,000, 4,000. Then the star bursts apart as each person turns by banking his body against the onrushing wind and tracks away from the others...
...felt any need to use this newfangled television. This year he is in a tight fight against former Governor Arch Moore, so Garth was called in. Result: half of Randolph's $500,000 campaign chest will be used on television. One spot shows Randolph preaching fervently to a cluster of coal miners about his long struggle to get them adequate health benefits. He comes across as jolly, energetic and statesmanlike-and much younger than...
Five years in building, MMT incorporates many design innovations. All six mirrors, plus a small .8-meter (30-in.) guide telescope in the center of the cluster, are mounted on a single Y-shaped yoke that tilts and turns like a gun mount. Rather than a traditional dome, MMT's designers opted for a cheaper rectangular Y OF ARIZONA building that rotates with the telescope. A small moat keeps out dust and stray snakes, scorpions and rats. Yet MMT'S most unusual feature is its internal laser tracking system. It enables all six telescopes to follow the same...
...flexing of the hinges in the waves forces the pistons to pump water, turning turbines that produce electricity. A small prototype string of rafts in the English Channel now produces a mere 1 kw., but its designer, Sir Christopher Cockerell, who also invented the Hovercraft, says that a cluster of 300 larger rafts could generate as much energy as a big conventional power station...