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...scurvy Shane: Max (Mel Gibson), once the leader of a vengeful highway patrol, now a misanthropic me-firster. For the technical challenge, Max makes an uneasy pact with the refiners. He will help them break through the cordon of marauders and speed them toward their image of paradise: the seacoast, 200 miles away, and peaceful freedom...
...pizazz to the countrified, 186-year-old alma mater of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Moll persuaded Bowdoin to allow applicants to skip the College Board exams, an attention-getting move, and he issued a new college brochure splashed with photos of sunsets, lobster pots and the Maine seacoast. Results during Moll's eight years at Bowdoin, applications increased from...
...Public Ivies: Admission to a New National Elite. Joined by new recruiters, Moll plans to visit 600 high schools this year to sell Santa Cruz. Predictably he has also printed 30,000 copies of U.C.S.C.'s first glossy "view book" full of color photos of the Pacific seacoast and sunsets amid the redwoods. The essence of his sales pitch, though, is no more flamboyant than Clark Kerr's original vision of Santa Cruz. Moll calls the school "the near perfect hybrid," blending the large public university and the small private college. "This place feels like Vassar or Bowdoin...
...vote grew out of the accident last year at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant. Even though Maine Yankee has a good safety record, nearby residents began to worry lest even a minor accident devastate the seacoast's $175 million-a-year tourist and fishing industries. Said former Congressman Stanley Tupper of nearby Boothbay Harbor: "There are 100,000 tourists here every summer. The only way to get all of them out would be by sea, and we could only do that if the Navy happened to have some ships in the vicinity." Led by Sculptor Raymond...
Warsaw's leaders were hardly less bewildered themselves last week as a strike by shipyard workers in the Baltic port of Gdansk spread to about 400 factories and enterprises along the northern seacoast and affected key industrial centers in the south. By week's end an estimated 150,000 workers had walked off the job, and there were rumors that Warsaw would be hit by a paralyzing general strike. In an apparent attempt to head off that prospect, the government relented on its earlier refusal to deal with the strike leaders and sent a deputy premier to meet with them...