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...visible for miles downrange last week as it carried three rookie astronauts toward their rendezvous with the Skylab space station orbiting some 270 miles above the earth. The third and final Skylab mission was launched. The unprecedented stay in space may last as long as 84 days and will encompass the Skylab project's most ambitious undertakings...
...central question was whether the hijacking represented "war" or "warlike operations," and thus was excluded from general or all-risk insurance. Frankel concluded that even the term "warlike operations" does not "encompass the infliction of intentional violence" by nongovernmental political groups upon civilians far from the scene of any regular fighting. Even if the semi-organized armed clashes with Israeli forces were "warlike," that would scarcely extend "the adjective to all bombings, killings and destruction anywhere under P.F.L.P. auspices." The judge went on to state that the relatively tiny group's activities were also not part of any "civil...
...first phase of the transfer, completed in July, put all married student housing under direct University auspices. The second of the three phases will encompass faculty housing and commercial property in Holyoke Center, leaving only unrestricted housing for the final phases...
Coleman himself goes beyond the panel's proposal to urge the development of working communities that encompass all ages. An organization of 1,000 persons would include 90 infants four and under, 180 aged five to 13 and 100 oldsters over 65. While producing goods and services, such Utopian units could also "bring down to humane size" the care of the young and elderly. As a model Coleman cites the residential community of the Society of Brothers, in upstate New York, which manufactures commercial toys. Unlike theirs, however, his groups would function only during the normal workday...
...year-old small-family firm, launched on $40 and the scrawny figure of a four-fingered mouse, has grown to encompass two of the country's major tourist attractions-Disneyland and Disney World; motion-picture-and television-producing Buena Vista studios; WED Enterprises, an engineering and design group that is fondly known as the "imagineers" and is responsible for many of the technological wonders of Disneyland and Disney World; several hotels, a travel service, a record company, a music-publishing corporation and a touring company; toy-manufacturing and merchandising operations; the governments of two legally constituted municipalities within Disney...