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Goldsmith rather enjoys some of the criticism leveled against him; for example, that he is a "meteor" who does not play by the rules of the financial community. "If it's too easy to be a meteor, there wouldn't be any natural selection," he says. "Obstacles have to be constantly put there. If I got to the top I'd have every intention of putting the obstacles there for the fellows behind." As for his dual households, he says: "Nobody can accuse me of humbug...
...around 900° F.) suggest a medieval theologian's idea of hell, may possess a recently active volcano. It shows a mountain measuring 279 miles by 186 miles at its base; at its summit is a 90-yd. depression that some believe may have been made by a meteor but Malin speculates is the crater of a volcano...
...Charles Luce, chairman of Consolidated Edison, which built the plants. Backed by company and some Government scientists, Luce pointed out that the plant had been operating for twelve years without harming the public. A catastrophic accident at Indian Point, he said, was as remote as the possibility of a meteor striking a large city...
Eagle defenseman Joe Augustine ruined things virtually for good at 3:55 with a meteor that Petrovek couldn't quite keep in his glove...
...Accident Risks in U.S. Commercial Nuclear Power Plants. Like its predecessor, its argument is statistical. The probability of any conventional water-cooled reactor's having an accident in any given year that might kill 1,000 people, the researchers reckon, is about the same as that of a meteor's striking a U.S. population center and killing 1,000 people-1 chance in 1 million...