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...current strongman of the 200,000-member oilworkers union, Hernandez, nicknamed La Quina, had built up a personal fortune and a large following among those beholden to him for jobs, education and health care. Many of the area's poor people regarded him as something of a Mexican Robin Hood. The enmity between Salinas and Hernandez dates back to the President's tenure as Secretary of Planning and Federal Budget in the administration of Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado. At that time, Salinas accused both the oil union and Pemex, the state oil company, of inefficiency...
Cambridge firefighters responded to a fire alarm and, after donning protective clothing, moved the canister to a gas hood in the laboratory that sucked away the remaining...
...chauffeur-driven car were to break down, General Motors president Robert Stempel is the sort of guy who would roll up his sleeves, look under the hood and fix it himself. Coming of age in Bloomfield, N.J., in the early 1950s, Stempel toiled during the summer as a garage mechanic. After joining GM as an engineer in 1958, he designed a front-wheel-drive transmission for the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado. Stempel's success with the front-wheel drive, a radical departure that later became a standard feature, accelerated his movement up the corporate ladder...
Scientists uniformly hail the appointment. Says immunogeneticist Leroy Hood of the California Institute of Technology: "Jim Watson has enormous experience in science politics, and superb taste. By sheer force of personality, he'll see that the project is run in an appropriate manner." Watson will need those skills to guide an effort that has generated controversy ever since its inception three years ago. The project aims to identify the specific site of every gene that sits on the 46 chromosomes in human cells; of an estimated 100,000 human genes, only 1,400 have been mapped...
...take off to the south, then head west. Below is the Hood Canal, an arm of Puget Sound, and the Navy shipyard at Bremerton. Ahead, partly obscured by clouds, are the Olympic Peninsula and the huge trees and muscular ridges and peaks of Olympic National Park. What we want to see from the air is the Shelton sustained-yield area, a heavily logged region just short of the park, most of it in the Olympic National Forest...