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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THAT MAKES The China Syndrome work as a thriller are its fine details. The nuclear control room set was designed by the man who re-created The Washington Post newsroom in All the President's Men; the T.V. studio and control room were from a real Los Angeles station. (Fonda's anchorman was played by an L.A. anchorman apparantly well-versed in the "Happy News" style.) The plot is well-crafted, and doesn't fall into the predictable action cliches that mar most current action/suspense films...
...free room, good time" deal for a weekend or two and, after the treatment, they usually sign on for the duration. All Tiger coach Norm Peck has to do is polish the trophy case. Presto chango, and Princeton is three-time national champ, leaving Fish and Barnaby's erector set coaching style looking at second place (or third this year...
...Steel feels passionate on the subject, not merely because it accounts for 20 million of the 80 million tons of shipping a year that passes through Sault Ste. Marie but because it insures its own fleet and can set the rates. Other shippers are far less committed to winter navigation because basic ship insurance rates rise prohibitively in the dead of winter...
...morning brings a fresh set of problems. An ore carrier called the George Stinson is downbound. Known unaffectionately as "Gorgeous George," the Stinson is a recently built 1,000-ft.-long Goliath of the lakes. Gorgeous she isn't; unmanageable she is. Says a company skipper who has been on the lakes since 1936: "Those thousand footers don't belong up here." Hall further defines the problem. "They need a lot of power to avoid getting stuck. But if they come barreling around the turns full bore, they wind up in the trees...
...Coglin set new Eastern, Harvard and pool records in the 200-yd. individual medley, a race he jokingly terms "a boring old bugger," and in the 400 IM touched a mere .11 seconds behind first place finisher and teammate, Ron Raikula...