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...careers. Alexandra Spofford makes clay figurines, Jane Smart plays the cello, and Sukie Rougemont writes a gossip column for the local paper. These friends meet almost every Thursday, as a coven of genuine, practicing witches: "In the right mood and into their third drinks they could erect a cone of power above them like a tent to the zenith...
...clients are from large corporations, and about 75% are men. Executives from such blue-chip firms as Xerox, Union Carbide and Citicorp have signed up without informing their bosses. Almost everyone praises Benton. "She's fabulous," says Pam Crowson-Brash, an account executive at the Foote, Cone & Belding ad agency in Chicago. "I feel I have an advantage over anyone who hasn't taken her course...
...launched into orbit, maneuvered to an enemy satellite and detonated. The U.S. ASAT missile, scheduled to be deployed in 1987, is considerably more sophisticated. The 18-ft.-long missile is carried 18 miles aloft by an F-15 fighter and fired directly toward a satellite; its foot-long nose cone, after homing in by means of eight miniature infrared sensors, does not explode but, propelled by dozens of tiny rocket thrusters, crashes into the enemy satellite at 30,000 m.p.h. "With the F-15 strap-on," says a Pentagon official, "we could clean up the sky in 24 hours...
...Nuclear Saints performed several experiments, one knitted a blue and maize "nose cone warmer" to protect missiles from the cold of winter. Another tried to create life from Frito's Corn Chips and refried beans...
...with sinking disappointment that I eyed the latest arrival along Mt. Auburn St., Gelateria Giuseppe. Translated that means sugar, and butterfat and crunch wafer cones--is this beginning to sound familiar? At my count, that brings to nine the number of ice cream emporiums a cone's throw from the Harvard T stop. What are they bringing into a world already complicated by oatmeal cookie vs. pina colada...