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...extraordinary newcomer will join that celestial company. The California Institute of Technology, working with the University of California, will build the world's biggest optical telescope on the volcano's crest; construction could begin as early as 1986. The mammoth instrument, made possible by a $70 million grant to Caltech by the W.M. Keck Foundation, will have an innovative mirror system nearly 400 in. in diameter, which is twice the width and has four times the light-gathering capacity of today's reigning optical telescope, the 200-in. Hale device at Mount Palomar, Calif. When astronomers begin using...
...million. When IBM decided not to participate, Ueberroth, who badly wanted to use their technology at the Games, called Chairman Frank Cary. The firm that sponsored the Games, Ueberroth said solicitously, would gain a global identity with the next generation of youth. Of course, he warned, another mammoth company with only three letters was interested; that was NEC, the Nippon Electric Company. IBM eventually signed on. Ueberroth had wanted the American company, partly out of patriotic loyalty. But threatening to play the foreign card was no bluff. When Eastman Kodak complained bitterly that no photo company would pay $4 million...
Ustinov owed his position at the top of the mammoth Soviet military machine to a simple truth: no matter how daring a general may be, he cannot wage and win wars if no one provides him with weapons. In that category, Ustinov excelled. During a career in the armaments industry that spanned five decades, he made certain that Soviet arsenals were never empty and lived to see his country surpass the U.S. in arms production...
...prehistory now, and nothing ages as fast as futurism. So it seems anachronistic for David Lynch, the gifted eccentric whose only previous features were the $20,000 Eraserhead and the $5 million The Elephant Man, to spend some $50 million (not another one!) bringing Herbert's mammoth fantasia to the screen. And more than a little confusing to those mortals who have not memorized the book. For Herbert devised not just a teeming universe but the rudiments of several new languages, and Lynch works hard to squeeze the novel's richness and oddness into 2½ hours. Dune...
Albano led in both Somerville and Medford after the ballots were first counted in what was considered a mammoth upset over Piro, who defeated Albano in the September Democratic primary...