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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...realism. The revelers sing so drunkenly that at least about half of the scene is completely unintelligible. The real problem, though, isn't that similar bits aren't funny (though they often aren't), but that they don't contribute to the more intricate and restrained development of the main action...
Translucent Togas. Once past the entry hall, patrons are politely requested to remove their shoes. They are escorted up a ramp into the cavernous main studio, to confront a brain-boggling scene. Dimly distinguishable in the half-light, two dozen or more toga-clad figures are arranged in random fashion around 14 raised platforms, lushly carpeted and joined together by a narrow walkway. Ghostly music emanates from unseen speakers; colored lights flicker over the ceiling and walls. New arrivals are led to platforms, helped into their own translucent togas and encouraged to doff as many of their clothes as they...
...just such a joint venture that touched off the rush to the North Slope this year. Geologists have long been aware that Alaska holds one of the last great known deposits of the world's main energy source. The Navy has controlled a 37,000-sq.-mi. North Slope petroleum reserve since World War II, but found no need to develop what it considered only a strategic reserve. Farther south at Cook Inlet, working wells produce 195,000 bbl. daily and have made Alaska the U.S.'s eighth largest oil-producing state. Three years ago. with U.S. consumption...
Either way, Alaska is bound to benefit. Though the fields are now being worked by outside labor, oil should eventually alleviate chronic unemployment among the state's 270,000 residents, whose two main occupations are fishing and working at the U.S. military bases. The state government will collect a 12.5% royalty in the form of oil, which it will sell to processors for the profitable petrochemical trade that they already conduct with Japan. Eventually, oil will mean far more to the state than gold, of which about $750 million worth has been mined since 1880. Only $760,000 worth...
...Blooming Grove, Ohio, "Winnie" Harding went in for nothing much more strenuous than tootling his B-flat cornet in the band. After five minutes of shucking corn, he gave it up for good, "saying it was too hard." At Iberia College-now Ohio Central College -his main interests were "debating, writing, and making friends," desultory preparation for the desultory professional floundering that followed...