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Whitman became interested in pioneer life through a larger interest in mortality and survival. She chose Tamsen Donner partly because of their similarities: both poets, teachers and married more than once. Through reading numerous accounts of the Donner party trip, and by traveling the route herself, Whitman hoped to get inside her persona...
This sentimental film biography of pioneer Rock Disc Jockey Alan Freed is the work of slobs, but there's no use pretending that it isn't fun. In its own bumbling way, American Hot Wax rekindles the cataclysmic spirit of the rock-'n'-roll revolution of the 1950s. Audiences who care little for rock should stay away, and so should anyone who expects movies to offer a credible plot. American Hot Wax is largely meant for a hard-core crowd-the moviegoers who have seen Saturday Night Fever three times and are desperate...
While our plane came in for a landing, Siberia loomed as a forbidding vista of seismic scars and snowcapped mountain ranges. Our destination: a tiny pioneer village aptly named Alonka (wasteland). The temperature: 50° F. below zero. On even chillier days, the cold at Alonka becomes literally audible: the moisture of exhaled breath freezes instantly, and the colliding crystals make a rustling sound. The Jeep-like vehicles used by the construction crews had quilts on their hoods; at a bridge construction site, workers were busy "cooking" concrete in warm elevated shacks before pouring it into foundations. The bridge, begun...
DIED. William L. McKnight, 90, pioneer advocate of industrial research and development who built and diversified a debt-ridden sandpaper concern into the $4 billion 3M Co.; in Miami Beach. McKnight left his family's South Dakota farm at 18 to become a bookkeeper's assistant in the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. at $11.55 a week. He rose quietly to become president of the company at 41, then chairman of the board until he retired...
Thomas and Jones are only two examples of families with high levels of PBB in their bodies. As many as 10,000 Michigan residents may have PBB in their bodies, and the number grows daily. Dr. Norman J. Selikhoff, a pioneer in the science of epidemiology, is conducting a study of these people. Preliminary findings suggested that PBB consumption caused brain disorders in the form of loss of memory and mental lethargy, immunological disruption, general physical fatigue, and changes in bone and muscle fiber: The new study will be finished later this week, but it is not expected...