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...that suggests a wayward spaceship. Inside is something that looks either like a miniature Matterhorn or perhaps a giant Sno-Cone wrapped in plastic. In fact, the mound is the tip of an iceberg. Beneath it, nestled into a 10-ft.-deep hole in the ground, is a thick heap of slowly melting ice. To its creator, Theodore Taylor, a nuclear physicist turned alternative-energy researcher, the pile of ice is proof that there are better and cheaper ways than air conditioning to cool people...
...facing the worst economic crisis in living memory," roared Marxist Union Leader Arthur Scargill. "Young people are being thrown on the scrap heap. We have to take the fight for jobs into the streets!" As Scargill stepped back from the podium, his audience of 2,000 Young Socialists jumped to their feet and broke into wild applause. Assembled at the seaside resort of Bridlington for their annual conference, the young foot soldiers of the Marxist left spent three days berating the established order. They joined in choruses of the worldwide revolutionary anthem, the Internationale. After each refrain, they raised their...
...have worked in the sixties, when the singles were the dominant mode, but not now. Where Rockpile elevates old tunes like Fats Domino's "I Hear You Knocking" to new fame, the Rumour drags down Manfred Mann's "I Think It's Gonna Work Out Fine" into the dust heap. The tackiness of the album cover is a joke, but one that will hurt them in this country; Americans don't like being told flat out that they're stupid consumers. The music of the Rumour and Rockpile rockseven more in concert, but is drowned out by the record industry...
FROM THE BALCONY of his third-floor suite in New Quincy. Theos McKinney peers into the House library and surveys his empire. "I've taken an attitude of benign neglect towards the whole thing during reading period," He says, observing the massive heap of comics and near-empty racks. "Usually I take an hour or so each week to set them all straight...
...some years we have been led to believe that over-45 executives were heading for the scrap heap. It was a pleasure to see the magnificent control with which 50-year-old Astronaut John Young brought Columbia back to earth...