Word: milles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most steel mills are heavy polluters of air and water. So the residents of Baytown, Texas, were understandably aghast when U.S. Steel acquired 15,000 acres for a new plant right next to Cedar Bayou, a valued local fish and wildlife refuge. Now the new plant, known as Texas Works, has been officially opened after six months of operation at one-third capacity. To the delight of all, it appears to be a model of enlightened industry-the first steel mill ever to make an effort to be clean clear through...
...garment factory. In Zambia, geologists are surveying copper fields. On Vancouver Island, lumber men are demonstrating a new technique for cutting timber that used to be considered waste. Other groups are supervising production of Honda motorbikes in Brussels, studying sites for a hotel in Alaska and building a steel mill in South Africa, where the Japanese are considered honorary-whites. In any market that arouses their interest, the Japanese use jinkai senjitsu (human-sea tactics), inundating the area with trade delegations and survey groups. Local businessmen sometimes feel that they are being overwhelmed by sheer force of numbers...
Died. Russ Hodges, 60, veteran baseball announcer; of a heart attack; in Mill Valley, Calif. Though he held a law degree, Hodges opted for a $25-a-week job broadcasting Cincinnati Red games in 1932. His enthusiastic delivery carried him to prosperity and New York, where he teamed with the Yankees' Mel Allen. In 1949 Hodges began his 22-year stint as "Voice of the Giants." His "Bye, Bye Baby" blessing for each Giant home run became his trademark and endured, as he did, when the Giants moved to San Francisco...
Fire bombs also destroyed two delivery trucks at the Los Gatos Post Office, south of Stanford; and an explosive device damaged the night depository, breaking windows at the Bank of America in Mill Valley, just north of San Francisco. No one was injured in any of the bombings...
Bebb? A sleazy evangelist, the Lord's pitchman, the proprietor of an ordination-by-mail diploma mill. Parr sends Bebb the suggested love offering and becomes an ordained preacher by return post. Bebb himself appears shortly thereafter: fierce and shrewd and seedy, awash in the blood of the lamb-and in plans for beggaring the Internal Revenue Service. He is there, he says, to save Parr's soul and teach him gainful godliness...