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...husband, 80, caused her great anxiety with his "strong drink and flirtatious ways with other women." Rundown. In Bloomington, Ill., the daily Pantagraph carried this classified ad: "HIGHLY INTELLIGENT fellow . . . lazy, unreliable young man who chews tobacco, has three small children to feed, wants highly paid executive position . . ." Payoff. In Miami, when FBI agents nabbed him, Essex Robinson asked what he was charged with, learned he was wanted for draft evasion, exclaimed: "Oh, is that it? I heard you were after me, so I hurried right down and paid that overdue bill at the clothing store...
...Steel has spent $175 million developing Cerro Bolivar. Whole towns were built: Ciudad Piar at the mountain, Puerto Ordaz on the river. But now the payoff starts. The rich hematite and limonite (eventually 10 million tons a year) will feed the $400 million Fairless Works at Morrisville, Pa.-where the first ore will arrive next week...
...Peaceful Payoff. At present, nuclear reactors do not seem to be practical competition for conventional sources of power. But the Idaho tests of the STR showed ways to save large sums of money in building the second model. Other savings are in prospect. Eventually, Rickover thinks, nuclear reactors will spread from the submarines and find profitable jobs on land...