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...supply of freezing liquid nitrogen was cut off and the eight or so bodies in the company's burial capsules thawed and decomposed. The relatives of three of the deceased-who had paid a total of $31,294 to have their loved ones preserved-sued Cryonics Executive Robert Nelson and Mortician Joseph Klockgether. Nelson who runs a TV repair business, insisted that customers realized he was engaged in nonprofit research and made no guarantees. The jury was unconvinced, and awarded the relatives a cool $928,594. In Berkeley, Calif., President Arthur Quaife of Trans Time Inc., who claims that...
Disc Jockey Ralph McCarthy was playing Willie Nelson tunes, reading the news and serving up public service announcements one Saturday last November to the folks in the redwood country around Eureka, Calif., when he bumped, voice first, into a social phenomenon. He had just finished reading a message about single mothers who needed help in trying to re-enter the job market. The program, one of many for single mothers in Northern California, was sponsored by a group called Displaced Homemakers. Impulsively, McCarthy told his listeners: "I'm a displaced homemaker too. I'm a single father...
...some enervating procedural wrangles lead to a compromise cut of $100,000, which really means property values and profligate pedagogy pretty much as usual in Weston. "It's a drop in the bucket," says Board of Finance Member Karl Nelson. "The board of ed can cover that cut just out of its contingency funds, and nothing will change." Nor will it, apparently, until the townspeople either run out of tax money or decide to take a long, hard look at their school system...
...even Increase the payments. Mineowners also retreated on another point of contention in the March pact: refusing to limit the use of nonunion workers at the mines by company subcontractors. Having reached agreement with the operators, Church set out to talk with his workers. Said he: "Like Willie Nelson, I'm going on the road again." First stop: Birmingham...
...DIED. Nelson Algren, 72, novelist and short-story writer who portrayed galleries of drifters, derelicts and drug addicts in The Man with the Golden Arm (1949) and A Walk on the Wild Side (1956); of a heart attack; in Sag Harbor, N.Y. A 1931 journalism graduate of the University of Illinois, he spent a few years wandering through the South and Midwest, meeting the losers and misfits who would later inhabit his fiction. A tireless traveler and avid gambler, Algren was a genial loner who spoke in the language of his working-class roots. He once warned, "Never...