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...earnest voice on the telephone described the offer as a sure thing. By sending $8,784 to the U.S. Oil and Gas Corp. in Coral Gables, Fla., the customer would be guaranteed-in writing-to win a lease worth $25,000 for the oil and gas rights on a parcel of U.S. Government land. Between September 1982 and June 1983, some 66,000 people drew down savings and took out loans to send the company money...
This revelation, added to postwar years of teaching, produced Lord of the Flies (1954), a taut parable about a group of English schoolboys who are deposited for safekeeping on a coral island while their elders wage nuclear war. Slowly but inexorably, they revert to savagery. "The theme," Golding explained, "is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature." The book sold modestly in both England and the U.S. (2,383 copies), but a paperback reprint issued in 1959 hit pay dirt. It became the desired and then the required reading for millions...
...Reagan Administration's policies--"unproductive" parkland will continue to be sold for strip mines and leased for oil drilling, and the government will continue to divest itself of the country's remaining wilderness areas. No, the Administration will probably stay committed to the despoiling of the continent's coral reefs, forests, and wildlife sanctuaries...
...daylong festival to thank Miami for its support and to display the talents of the boatlift's artists. Said Choreographer and Dancer Pedro Pablo Peña, who washed up on the shores of Key West in a shrimper and now directs the 14-member Creation Ballet in Coral Gables: "This is the other face of Mariel. It shows we are succeeding and contributing to this country...
...strong U.S. naval presence off both Nicaraguan coasts is intended to apply still more pressure. The aircraft carrier Coral Sea is en route across the Atlantic. The Seventh Fleet carrier Ranger and its seven escort ships, which left the Pacific coast late last week, are due to be replaced soon by the battleship New Jersey. Before the Seventh Fleet ships left they displayed their firepower off the Nicaraguan shore. With Salvadoran President Alvaro Magaña aboard, the Ranger sent up 16 of its planes for roaring aerobatics, with bombing (500-lb. ordnance) and strafing practice, while near...