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...Jewish Center in Los Angeles. He became a recognizable movie personality in American Graffiti and a major film actor in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. While the filming of Jaws wound on, Dreyfuss would cry in mock frustration, "What am I doing out in the middle of the goddam ocean when I could be back in civilization, making personal appearances...
Bruce was fairly programmed for mishap. In order to use him, a twelve-ton steel platform, to which the mechanical shark was attached by a 100-ft.-long umbilical cable, had to be sunk to the ocean floor. The controls on the platform were operated by 13 technicians wearing scuba equipment...
Curiosity seekers started streaming into the province, a scrubby sand plain 14 miles from the Indian Ocean and enlivened only by an occasional kangaroo. Tourism rose from 3,000 in 1970 to 40,000 last year. Mail from round the world is running at 200 letters a week, many from prospective settlers who apparently see the province as a potential Elysium-on-Hutt. An air service flies in from Perth (370 miles south) twice weekly, first circling the capital as a signal to the prince to clear the grassy landing strip of grazing cattle...
Under construction in landlocked Switzerland, of all places, Oxy is the brainchild of a Swiss electronics engineer named Jean-Claude Protta, 32. An avid ocean sailor, Protta took a 15-month, 12,000-mile cruise and came home in 1971 with a headful of ideas about new electronic equipment for navigation. He brought his plans to Oxy Metal Industries International (O.M.I.I.), a division of Occidental Petroleum, which was looking for new applications for metal oxide semiconductors (MOS)-the tiny components that engineers use to cram extremely complex circuits onto silicon chips less than a quarter of an inch square...
...suddenly the Kennedy legacy had been altered. Two new sites at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and more prominently the UMass-Boston campus at Columbia Point on the ocean, emerged as complex contenders. Kennedy the scholar, inextricably linked for the last decade with his alma mater, was now Kennedy "the man of the sea" and Kennedy "the man of Massachusetts...