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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stars. In 1971 Chester and his five Case Western Reserve colleagues began feasibility studies on their plan-including a hard look at the group's prospects for hanging together for five whole years. They decided that their do-it-yourself project was indeed practical. After carefully selecting a site that was suitably high, dry and far from city lights in the Los Padres National Forest near Monterey, they dubbed their brainchild MIRA-the Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy...
Rosenthal attributed the sale's success to the science center being a "much gayer place" than the former Memorial Hall site and the fact that the sale was held in the fall instead of during the January reading period as in the past...
Paterson is a middle-sized city (150,000 pop.), described in the '30s WPA New Jersey State Guide as "one of the few cities in America that came out almost exactly as it was planned." It was founded in 1972 as an industrial community, a site for the factories of the Society for Useful Manufacturers (SUM), one of Alexander Hamilton's corporate schemes to industrialize the newly united colonies. The settlement quickly became a colony of the industrialists who ran SUM--men like Samuel Colt, who produced his first revolvers in Paterson. It was not until 1831 that the town...
...stalled in heavy traffic on a back road, a captive audience to seasonal radio commercials. "Colorful sweaters to rival the surrounding hillsides with their brilliance," gushed one commercial in New Hampshire. Along the byways, picturesque barns bulged with suspiciously fresh antiques, and every front yard seemed the site of a garage sale of faded castoffs rescued from the attic...
Barthelme turns a parodist's ear to several deserving sources of modern noise. A mock scenario for a film in the manner of Antonioni blurs the line between significant ennui and utter vacuity: "Shot of nail kegs at construction site. Camera peers into keg, counts nails." A news story of four Bunnies, fired from the New York Playboy Club for losing their "Bunny image," provokes a case history: "Bitsy S., an attractive white female of 28, was admitted to Bellevue Hospital complaining that she could not find, physically locate, her own body...