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...bedroom window, when who should hop in but Huck Finn, itching to travel. "Dress warmly," Walt's dead mom told him. And we're off to see Louisa May Alcott, who's having an affair with a Tahitian prince. Over there's Charlotte Cushman, the noted actress, playing Hamlet to Emily Dickinson's Ophelia; they become co-stars and lovers. Old Ralph Waldo Emerson is having a chat with the dead Henry David Thoreau: "Sex can be messy; art can't. That's why I've always preferred it." Then just about...
...cash out of the complex and last year had even arranged to sell an interest in the center, but the deal fell through. Other family ventures include office buildings in Phoenix, Detroit and Newark, a paper and plastics manufacturer, an oil and gas company, the New York City-based Cushman & Wakefield Inc. real estate management firm, and a company that produces traveling versions of the stage shows at Radio City Music Hall...
...Northern California town of Orland, Donna Marley, 40, a widow, saw her December electric bill of $87 leap to $210 in a month. Neighbors Barney and Verna Cushman were shocked when their December bill of $360 surged to $624 in January. Nor have PG&E customers been the only ones hit. In San Diego, Verna Murray, a customer of San Diego Gas & Electric, thought that her $250 per month electricity payments were already excessive; her December bill exploded...
...computer program is being put to a wide range of uses. It helps Allerton Cushman Jr., a New York financial analyst, to project insurance-industry profits during the week and tote up his income taxes on the weekend. The Cabot Street Cinema Theatre in Beverly, Mass., bought VisiCalc to figure out which pattern of movie show times draws the best box-office receipts. An accounting firm in Las Vegas plans to use VisiCalc to tell its gambling-house clients how to position slot machines around the floor to ensure the biggest take. VisiCalc is obviously one composition that...
...symbiosis between city and cars is, of course, what makes the Motor City unique. "It is both a great blessing and a great problem," says Edward Cushman, a political science professor at Detroit's Wayne State University. In normal times, more than one-third of the city's 1.8 million wage earners hold jobs directly related to the auto industry. When the assembly lines are rolling, the area's autoworkers, many of whom are black, can take home as much as $30,000 a year. When layoffs are temporary, the combination of company, union, state and federal benefits gives workers...