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...games played, that is. Yesterday's rain out marks the ninth cancellation of a Crimson game this year. Yesterday's negated victory was particularly frustrating because the sun came out only minutes after the contest was called. The team goes into Wednesday's game against North Essex with a five game winning streak and a 10-6 record...
DIED. Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, 79, urbane, politically astute Tory leader who served in seven Conservative governments and was sometimes called "the best Prime Minister Britain never had"; in Great Yeldham, Essex, England. Butler was Under Secretary of State at the India Office early in his career and helped formulate the Government of India Act of 1935, which strengthened India's provincial legislatures. As a major architect of England's social reforms and development of the welfare state, he assisted in renovating his country's penal system, modernizing the public drinking laws and shaping an education...
...group of six Massachusetts investors approached the Essex Co., an old-line New England firm that had initially built and continued to own the dam, with a proposal to build a hydroelectric plant there. Company stockholders were receptive because the dam faced financial troubles. The Department of the Interior had ordered the company to construct a $1.5 million fish ladder to help the Merrimack River's growing schools of Atlantic salmon move upstream to spawn. The company stockholders agreed to sell out to the investment group, which later formed a partnership with E G & G, a Wellesley, Mass., energy...
When fully operational, the plant is expected to generate enough electrical power to meet the needs of 17,000 homes, giving the investors a return of 15% on their money, a profit that few utilities can match. Says Essex Chairman Jacek Makowski: "A hydro project can be viewed as an oil well with unlimited resources. Once you have the capital investment finished, you are good for 50 years, maybe longer...
...November 20, 1820, the Nantucket whaling ship Essex was attacked by a sperm whale, and sank in mid-Pacific. The incident provided Herman Melville the ending for Moby Dick. It also sent the 20-man crew of the Essex zigzagging across open ocean for three months in three 23-ft. whaleboats. Eventually they resorted to cannibalism to survive. For more than 100 years the only known account was that of the first mate, Owen Chase. But this spring 100 pages written by Thomas Nickerson, who shipped on the Essex as a boy of 16, were found in an attic...