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...four weeks. Owners lose between $5,000 and $20,000 a day operating idle, loaded vessels, and some of them began furloughing crews and tying up their ships. Meanwhile, port directors feared that seaway customers might switch to East Coast and Gulf ports in the future. Said Duluth, Minn., Port Director Davis Halberg: "With bad problems two years in a row, it looks like we're going to have to resell the seaway to shippers all over again. That may not be easy...
While Karpov and Kasparov were face to face, the two computers were 750 miles apart--the Cray in Mendota Heights, Minn., the Sun on the Pittsburgh campus of Carnegie-Mellon University. The computers' moves were sent over telephone lines to Denver and relayed to a regulation chessboard. But distance did not hurt the game. Says Chess Master David Levy: "For the first time a program played like a strong human player...
DIED. Oswald (Ossie) Bluege, 84, third baseman of catlike quickness for the Washington Senators (1922-39) who was widely regarded as one of the best glovemen ever to play the position; in Edina, Minn. His 49 years' employment with the Senators--the Minnesota Twins after 1961--included stints as coach (1940-42), manager (1943-47), farm director (1948-54), controller and secretary...
...poisons. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., for example, cut its volume of toxic wastes in half, partly by switching from solvent-based glues to water-based glues in its manufacture of adhesive tape. It also burns nearly all of the remaining wastes in a huge incinerator at Cottage Grove, Minn. "In the past five years, there has been a tremendous change in the attitude of the chemical industry about hazardous waste," says Larry O'Neill, an environmental official with Monsanto Co. in Missouri. "We are now generating less and recycling more." Still, the recovery techniques are just being developed. "When...
Meeting in Collegeville, Minn., last June, the bishops of the U.S. discussed the status of the American church, in preparation for the synod, and last week their president, Bishop James W. Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, sent the Vatican an official report, requested from all bishops' conferences, on behalf of the Americans. Malone, 65, attended Vatican II and is the U.S. hierarchy's delegate to the November meeting in Rome. His 14-page statement reflected not only Collegeville comments but proposals from two dozen Catholic scholars. The report, strongly endorsing the effects of Vatican II in the U.S., said that...