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Many people have accused governments of piracy, but few have as good cause as Melvin Fisher. In 1971 Fisher, 56, located a Spanish galleon that sank off the coast of Florida in 1622 carrying 47 tons of gold and silver. Since then, he and his company have been diving for the treasure, which could be worth as much as $600 million. The mission's cost so far: $5 million and four lives, including that of Fisher...
...because agents of the state covet the treasure does not give the agents the right to take it." Fisher was jubilant. Said he: "When a little guy like me can beat the government in court, it is a good signal for free enterprise." Don't celebrate too much, Melvin. There's still the income...
Unions also face stiff and growingly effective employer resistance. In the Sunbelt, it sometimes turns intimidating. Melvin Tate, a Southern organizer, finds employees of J.P. Stevens & Co., the textile giant, fearful that Stevens will close any plant that votes in a union. Stevens bosses, says Tate, do not make that threat directly because it is illegal, but their wives and relatives pass the word in gossip. In the West, Chaikin charges, owners of some garment plants have prompted the U.S. Immigration Service to raid their own factories and arrest signers of union cards as illegal immigrants?which many indeed were...
...addition of four high-power "neutral beam" injectors, developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, pumped extra energy into the hot plasma, and a shrewd switch to graphite from tungsten in critical components of the torus' vacuum chamber reduced heat loss. The director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Melvin Gottlieb, is now convinced that the break-even point can be reached with Princeton's new and bigger torus, slated to begin operation...
...intended to resign last fall as executive director. After 15 years in the A.C.L.U., he admits, "I'm combat weary." But he postponed his exit a year to see the A.C.L.U. through the Skokie crisis. Internal wrangling, which forced Washington Director Charles Morgan Jr. and Legal Director Melvin Wulf out of the organization, has added to the strain on Neier. So has the revelation that union officials passed along information about its membership to the Federal Bureau of Investigation during the 1950s...