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...Gem of Egypt, which looks something like a cross between a lobster and a skyscraper, stands 20 stories high and weighs 7,000 tons. Tearing up earth at a rate of 200 tons per bite, the Hanna Coal Co.'s Gem (actually an acronym for Giant Earth Mover) has stripped the top 80 ft. of soil off the area around Hendrysburg, Ohio, so that other machines can gouge out the underlying coal. Now the Gem wants to move across Interstate Highway 70 and chew its way toward Barnesville (pop. 4,300), ten miles to the south...
...Hanna Co. persuaded federal and state officials to agree that its equipment could cross the highway occasionally. But two of Barnesville's more redoubtable matrons, Mrs. Norma Schuster and Mrs. Aida Rissi, are ready to argue in court that this agreement never envisaged equipment as mighty as the Gem, which requires that the highway be closed for 24 hours and covered with a 12-ft. protective blanket of earth while the Gem creeps across it at ½ m.p.h...
...lunch last Saturday to talk about his work, and it quickly became apparent that James Park Sloan, like his newest book, is exceedingly deceptive in appearance. The volume, a slim work, is a structural gem, finely conceived, and aptly polished. Likewise, the author's unhurried, Southern manner conceals a dynamic intellectual personality and an impassioned conversationalist...
Thomas had one of his finest games for the Crimson, driving in three runs and contributing the fielding gem of the afternoon by stabbing a liner between third and shortstop. McGugan provided the leading plate performance, going three for three and scoring each time he reached base. His single in the fourth also drove in Tim Bilodeau with what proved to be the winning...
Second baseman McGugan came up with a fielding gem in the fifth inning that stayed off a potential rally. With a man or first, he chased down a grounder headed into center field and flipped to shortstop Serrano for the force...