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...Mississippi television station executive is trying to intervene in Mississippi Power and Light's plans to build a 2500-megawatt dual reactor nuclear power plant in Port Gibson, Miss...
...Experiments. Astronauts Gerald Carr, William Pogue and Edward Gibson, a physicist, have been assigned a long list of new experiments. These range from opening carbonated beverages (to see if they bubble in zero G), to breeding gypsy moths (in hopes of mass producing sterile offspring to reduce the pest population on earth), to observing Comet Kohoutek, which will make its closest approach to the sun during the Skylab mission. For their stay in space, which may be extended to 80 days, the men will carry along some 200 Ibs. of extra food: beverages, catsup and several hundred little high-nutrition...
...Boswell, A Bad Man and The Dick Gibson Show, Stanley Elkin demonstrated lavish verbal and comic gifts, a generosity of spirit and a talent for staging extravaganzas of the absurd. If his plots lurched and his ideas went off like random flares, Elkin's characters commanded attention because of the manic way they acted out their necessities...
...legal officer, and set up his own practice in Newark. There he met Hayden and was introduced into radical law when he took the case of John Butenko, an engineer who was charged with espionage. Since then, Weinglass has represented Imamu Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson...
...refused to give up. Experimenting with duplicates of tools aboard Skylab, they devised techniques for cutting, sawing and even prying off the metal. Practicing with these tools in simulated conditions of weightlessness in NASA'S big water test tank at Huntsville, Ala., Backup Astronauts Rusty Schweickart and Ed Gibson demonstrated that the implements might well work in space...