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...probe fired from the Deep Impact spacecraft is scheduled to collide with Comet Tempel 1, a nine-mile-long rock roaring through space at 66,880 m.p.h. The planned cosmic crack-up will gouge out a football-field-size crater and may be visible from the U.S. Pacific Coast and points west. It may also reveal a lot about the chemistry of comets, fossils of the early solar system...
Once into his 40s, Homer rarely went anywhere without rag paper, sable brushes and the little pans of color. He took his working vacations in places he knew would give him subjects--the New England coast, the Adirondacks, the tumultuous rivers of Quebec, the Florida Keys and the dark palmetto-fringed pools of Homosassa, the bays and whitewashed coral walls of the Bermudas...
Similar questions were being asked on the West Coast concerning First Interstate's offer to merge with BankAmerica. Chairman Pinola's bid to swap common and preferred shares of First Interstate's stock for BankAmerica holdings was valued by the smaller bank's officials at $18 a share. More skeptical financial analysts put the offer at $13 or $14 a share. The problem, said Paul Baastad, a vice president of the S.G. Warburg investment bank, is that "no one seems to know what BankAmerica is worth. It's a situation where a bunch of vultures are hovering around a wounded...
...such a marriage proposal had been made. First Interstate's Pinola, who built the regional bank to its current size through a series of daring takeover moves, reportedly approached BankAmerica with an informal merger offer last March, but the bigger bank preferred to retain its independence. Privately, many West Coast financial analysts do not think First Interstate can offer enough money to sway BankAmerica's management and board...
...late Herbert W. Armstrong and his Worldwide Church of God, although Armstrong had no connection with the Identity movement. The Identity churches stem more directly from the preaching before and after World War II of Gerald L.K. Smith, a notorious anti-Semite. It was Smith's West Coast operative, Wesley Swift, who founded the church that Butler now leads. Later a Swift offshoot in Mariposa, Calif., led by retired Army Colonel William Potter Gale, produced the newsletter Identity and solidified the ideology...