Word: milles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon last April, in the central Maine town of Dover-Foxcroft (pop. 4,000), Charles MacArthur was standing beside the canal lock that feeds water from the Piscataquis River into the hydroelectric plant of Brown's Mill. He heard a strangely squishy, popping sound. "It was sort of like a baseball bat hitting a rotten stump," he recalls. The bulkhead below the 600-kw generator bulged from hydrostatic pressure and quietly let go. MacArthur (who owns the mill) turned, horrified, to see 100 tons of concrete, studded with steel reinforcing rods, tossed lightly into the springtime air as thousands...
...about. He was-reverent pause-a small businessman. He also happened to be another of the President's favorite people: an energy-crisis fighter, an advocate and indeed a practitioner of "small is beautiful" technology. Hydroelectric plants of no more capacity than the one at Brown's Mill, he told the now fast-fading uh-huh in Washington, are being built for $6 million. Could a taxpayer in good standing borrow $30,000 to restore a single little bulkhead? Hello? Hello...
...visitor to Dover-Foxcroft soon sees, in purely material terms the project consists of a complex of five buildings MacArthur bought for $100,000 with a mortgage taken out last July. Dating back to 1867, Brown's Mill stands in all the interesting stages of decay known to brick, mortar and wood. As MacArthur takes you on the conducted tour, picking his way buoyantly through the rubble, he can manage to see Brown's Mill as a stranger sees it-but not for long. For MacArthur, in this cavernous tomb to New England's vanished woolen industry...
...major aerospace manufacturer and food processor, is keeping quiet about its postmerger plans, at least until after shareholders of both companies vote in late August or early September to approve the linkup. All LTV has said is that it will not close Youngstown's Indiana Harbor mill, near Chicago, which could feed raw steel to Jones & Laughlin's Hennepin, Ill., processing plant and give the enlarged combine a fully integrated facility in the Middle West. While the two companies are complementary in some ways, they also have redundancies. LTV has promised that the merger savings will lead...
...vision of its Founder Kirby S. Hensley" in 1962. Universal Life is only one of 37 groups catalogued in a fascinating new manual entitled Religious Requirements and Practices. Its earnest notes on Hensley's "church" neglect to mention that it is the notorious ordination-by-mail mill that for the past decade has conferred a doctor of divinity degree upon virtually anyone who asks...