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Britons knew last week that war's psychoses were receding fast: from Scotland came reports that the Loch Ness monster has been seen again...
...50th and 51st Streets-the Radio City Music Hall of Rockefeller Center. Wags had already dubbed the locale of the new theatre, whose 6,200 seats make it the world's largest, the "Rothafeller" Center, for celebrated Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel was to produce this week a monster variety bill twice daily...
Ordinarily, the rugged mountain towns of Morenci and Clifton are close-knit in an almost feudal way, drawn together by their common employer. Morenci (pop. 2,700), dominated by the huge white pit of the copper mine and the two monster smokestacks of the smelter, is the archetypal company town. Phelps Dodge, which has enjoyed a reputation as a generous employer, owns the water and electric utilities, the county hospital, the gas station, the motel, the bowling alley, the high school and a new Spanish-style shopping center featuring the Phelps Dodge Mercantile Co. (easy credit terms). Workers earn...
...myth that America has fallen behind in microelectronics technology." The company has vast financial resources and unquestioned technological prowess, but skeptics wonder if it has enough marketing skill for the fast-moving chip competition. Asks George Gilder in Release 1.0, an electronics-industry newsletter: "Can a monopoly-coddled monster find happiness in the merchant semiconductor mar ket? Can an elephant play jacks...
...which left France open to Soviet charges of being a "tool of American imperialism." In fact, Mitterrand asserted, France is committed to the defense of Chad's territorial integrity, not to toppling Gaddafi, for whom he has no particular hostility. If Reagan sees Gaddafi as some sort of monster, the article said, let him confront the Libyan leader directly instead of trying to use France as a surrogate...