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Through the Mill: As a rookie two years ago, junior Derek Mills led the Crimson in scoring, earned Ivy Rookie of the Year honors and was named Freshman of the Year by Soccer America...
...latest incredible news broke last week at the PTL ministry's forlorn theme park at Fort Mill, S.C., barely a tenth of the rooms were occupied in the Heritage Grand Hotel. Along the adjoining Main Street shopping arcade, stale popcorn was piled unsold in a vendor's cart, and saleswomen without customers knitted listlessly in a crafts shop. Cranes, brought in to construct Jim Bakker's fantasies, stood eerily idle, as they have since scandal struck 19 months...
...Tammy, lately encamped nearby in a disciple's mansion, failed to make good on a $172 million offer but hope vaguely to return to their Valhalla. Jim questions whether the hotel can be filled again without a star evangelist. Him, for instance. The demoralized Fort Mill staffers are mostly relieved that the chaos has ended, at least temporarily. "All of us just want somebody to take it and carry on," said Dean Chandler, the hotel's service manager...
Heat in the buildings is provided by three underground steam mains in a tunnel called the "Mill Street Header," which are activated by October 1 each year. A computerized valve system regulates the supply of steam to each building, and can be turned on or off from a terminal at the Facilities Maintenance Department. Until October 12, department members flip switches based on students' calls; after this date, a computer controls the heat automatically...
...shipyard workers voted to end their strike following an emotional appeal from Lech Walesa, leader of the outlawed Solidarity union and an electrician at the facility. They were followed by steel-mill employees in Stalowa Wola and coal-mine workers in Jastrzebie, where the latest round of labor troubles began on Aug. 16. The last to settle were port and public transport employees in Szczecin, who abandoned their strikes around noon on Saturday...