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Buffeted by winds of up to 110 m.p.h., a 42-ft. Coast Guard pilot boat, the Can Do, capsized and sank in Salem Harbor. The captain and the four-man crew were drowned. In nearby Nahant, Melvin Demit, 61, was lighting the furnace in his basement, when a wall of water crashed into his house and engulfed him. In Scituate, a raging sea swept five-year-old Amy Lanzikos to her death just as a rescue boat was bringing her to safety...
...himself, as this compassionate biography shows, Delmore Schwartz is the ruin on which others have built. "I think I've never met anyone who has somehow as much seeped into me," Lowell once said, delivering a tribute haunted enough even for Schwartz. - Melvin Maddocks...
...other extreme, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research contends that there is enough oil and gas in the world to last 100 years or more-provided that industrial nations are willing to pay the price of developing it. Former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird says that there is no energy shortage, only a production shortage brought about by unwise Government policy. Says Economist Morris A. Adelman, an M.I.T. colleague of Wilson's: "The gap is like the horizon, always receding as you walk, ride, or fly toward...
...official's desk in the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. The will contains misspellings and references totally atypical of Hughes. It also leaves one-sixteenth of Hughes' money to a former Utah gas-station operator, Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have picked up Hughes in the desert and driven him back to Las Vegas-and Dummar has since admitted that his story was false. Even so, Hughes' old estranged lieutenant, Noah Dietrich, who is named in the will as executor, and Dietrich's Los Angeles attorney...
...part time as head of A.E.I.'s "council of academic advisers" and plays a leading role in choosing what subjects the institute will study and who will investigate them. Others helping A.E.I. on a part-time basis to build up expertise include two leaders of the Nixon Cabinet: Melvin Laird, former Secretary of Defense, who has just finished an A.E.I. report on energy problems, and William Simon, Secretary of the Treasury until last January, who is starting an A.E.I. study of tax policy...