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...characters to do things that they would do in real life but would never tell us as reporters," adds Reporter Louise Logue. So that their settings and dialogues will be authentic, the seven authors of Federal Triangle, each of whom writes one episode a week under the nom de plume Hardee Mumms, do lots of old-fashioned legwork...
Once they were the undisputed mistresses of the world's greatest commercial waterway. They still evoke memories of a long-departed era that Mark Twain -whose very nom de plume is derived from navigation terminology of the day -described in Life on the Mississippi. Today the great paddle-wheeling river steamboat is a species almost as endangered as the whooping crane-and likewise protected by the Government. The last wooden-decked steamboat, the 50-year-old Delta Queen, plies the 1,500 miles of river from Cincinnati to New Orleans under a special congressional exemption from the federal safety...
Northern Washington State's volcanic Mount Baker has not belched fire since the late 1860s. But now the 10,778-ft. peak may be clearing its massive throat for another outburst. Increasing volcanic activity has produced clouds of sulfurous gases and a plume of steam that can be seen in Seattle, some 90 miles away. Mount Baker's stirrings are causing some uneasiness in the town of Concrete (pop. 600), which lies at the mountain's base. While there is little chance that the town will suffer the fate of ancient Pompeii, the U.S. Forest Service...
...started out wearing gaudily studded and mirrored jumpsuits, soon graduated to feather boas, fur shoulderettes, a top hat surprounted by a magnificent ostrich plume by now these too have become routine costumes...
...works eight or nine hours a day on Volume III of his Metamorphoses of the Gods, and spends his rare moments of rest strolling through his elegant garden in Verrieres-le-Buisson with his two cats, named Fourrure (fur) and Essuie-plume (penwiper). Still French Polymath Andre Malraux, 73, took time out to visit the Louvre for a television tribute to Michelangelo in honor of the 500th anniversary of the artist's birth. "Michelangelo invented the hero type. It had not existed before him, and he certainly did not discover it in antiquity, where it does not exist either...