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...college squad took football too seriously: "They were all 275-lb. Mean Joe Greene types." Instead, Mike turned to speedboating. He was married, and divorced, in less than a year, and meandered - working briefly as a trucker's assistant - before becoming a salesman of yachts and other pleasure craft in 1971. Last year he started a firm that markets gasohol equipment for farmers. More recently, Mike has become a stockholding senior vice president of the Southern Pacific Title Co., a Santa Ana firm that sells real estate title insurance, and is now negotiating to do a radio commentary show...
...October, authorities seized 80 tons of pot on a 100-ft. barge equipped with two conveyor belts for fast unloading. Last month the crew of a Coast Guard patrol craft received permission to fire on a fleeing supply boat, only the second time since Prohibition that the Coast Guard has shot at a U.S.-registered vessel in peacetime. Seized were 70 tons of marijuana; 16 Colombians were arrested...
Like Dr. Johnson, Abbott Joseph Liebling was negligent in appearance and lean in his craft. His death in 1963 was hastened by a lifetime of overeating...
...because the Mountain West offers them things they have been unable to find elsewhere: more space, cleaner air, fewer people, less crime. They arrive with their own lifestyles and slowly begin to transform the places where they settle. In Sandpoint, Idaho, a favorite refuge of disillusioned Californians, boutiques and craft shops flourish and stores sell wooden tubs for outdoor bathing. Newcomers may even revive an entire town in their image. Twenty-five miles south of Santa Fe, in the Ortiz Mountains, lies the hamlet of Madrid (pop. 250). Until 1955, the community scraped together a living from nearby coal mines...
Weighing up to 50,000 tons apiece, solar satellites would have to be built in space itself, with materials carried aloft by a new generation of craft considerably larger and more powerful than the NASA space shuttle. Looking like great Erector Sets, the structures, about six miles long and three miles wide, would be made of long thin beams actually manufactured in space out of rolls of aluminum or carbon-fiber strips about as thick as the wall of a beer can. In the weightlessness of orbit, nothing stronger would be needed...