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...Protestant extremist group, the Young Militants-an obscure offshoot of larger paramilitary groups-claimed responsibility for the Strand bar blast. The carnage took Ulster past another grisly milestone: 1,206 dead, including 866 civilians, since 1968, when Catholics began demonstrating for equal rights. This month alone there have been 119 shootings and bombings, with 21 killed and 170 injured...
...growing circulation. Money has begun to come in from foundations like the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. A New Alchemy Institute West has been set up in Pescadero, Calif., south of San Francisco. The Canadian-born Todd plans to build a new ark on Prince Edward Island, Canada; another offshoot is being started up in Costa Rica, where McLarney is now looking for other varieties offish to raise...
...securities industry, the American Stock Exchange last week inaugurated a new type of trading that brokers hoped would lure more small investors-and the commissions they pay -back to the market. Inspired by the success of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, first organized in 1973 as an offshoot of the Chicago Board of Trade, the Amex has brought trading in stock futures or "call options" to Wall Street...
Conspiracy theories are a natural offshoot of such an approach. If there is a problem, it must be caused deliberately by a malicious enemy. To Nader, auto manufacturers conspire to produce unsafe cars; to Bernard Nossiter, they conspire to plan obsolescence; to the AAA, consumerists conspire to deprive motorists the joy of open road travel; to General Motors, a conspiracy of youth and the underprivileged are responsible for the famous Lords town difficulties. Finally a book has been written about the automakers which transcends conspiracy. Emma Roths child's history of the American automobile industry is levelheaded and objective...
Died. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 76, restless offshoot of one of New York's richest families; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach, Fla. Opting for journalism over college, Vanderbilt embarrassed his clan in Farewell to Fifth Avenue (1935), a candid volume of childhood memories that caused his name to be struck from the Social Register. Living and working in an elaborately furnished trailer-"I would rather be a vagabond than a Vanderbilt," he once wrote-he periodically skittered round the world to interview celebrities for various newspapers and magazines. He was married seven times, divorced...