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...been knocking men out in a more direct fashion on location in France for the new James Bond film, A View to a Kill. The script casts Jones as May Day, who tries to outfox Her Majesty's secret agent. One scene called for Jones to hoist a 6-ft., 180-lb. KGB agent over her head to put him in his place. Jones says she could have lifted Actor Bogdan Kominowski on her own, but the studio insisted that supporting wires be attached to him as a safety measure. Declared Jones: "My mother always warned me about picking...
...will neatly "mate," as the engineers like to put it, with the other building to form an enclosed, weather-protected space where the rest of the shuttle vehicle can be assembled. Like the tower, the assembly building will have a crane in its roof. Together the two machines can hoist the empty, 154.4-ft.-long, 69,000-lb. external tank of a future shuttle into place between the stacks of rocket boosters. Clearance on each side: less than ¼ in. The final element in the assembly, the main body of the shuttle, or orbiter, is mounted on the external tank...
Notes Japanese Synthesist Isao Tomita, best known for his reworkings of orchestral showpieces like Gustav Hoist's The Planets: "In this computer age, the question of whether you can play traditional instruments must never be the major factor in qualifying yourself as a musician or composer...
...celebration of Christmas in Gramercy Park seems exactly as it was. Every December the Gramercy Neighborhood Associates hoist a tree on the south side of the park. A party is thrown for all the neighborhood at the National Arts Club. Clothing and toys are collected for the poor. Apartment house entrances are decorated with wreaths and lights. On Christmas Eve, the residents come together in the park around the tree, while a man with a portable organ leads them in bellowing carols against the night...
Looking for an offbeat investment prospect? Well, consider a St. Paul company called American Hoist & Derrick. A typically depressed heavy-equipment manufacturer, Amhoist lost $21.8 million last year and is expected to wind up in the red again this year. Two of its primary markets, the petroleum and timber industries, remain sluggish. Its stock has been sagging in the bull market and now sells for $15, vs. a high of $26, reached...