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...boyhood home-is "Andalusia," the most celebrated example of Greek Revival architecture in the U.S. Off and flying, Biddle injected the national conscience into a battle over Hawaii's Diamond Head. Financier Chinn Ho's plan to develop apartments on the extinct volcano's seaward slope sparked an eruption of Hawaiian sentiment against the idea. Said Biddle: "There is a place for high-rise development, but must it be on the slopes of your greatest monument?" Now embattled preservationists have begun to sway the Honolulu city council against the rezoning plan...
...designed to carry a Cachalot-type chamber that can accommodate four additional divers in its stern compartment. It uses spacecraftlike water-jet thrusters to hover in place and can tilt itself some 30° fore and aft and 10° sideways-useful for settling gently on an underwater slope. Deep Quest's two manipulator arms can each grasp as much as 500 Ibs. of material at a time off the ocean floor and tuck it into two squirrel-cheek spaces on either side of the craft...
...state in recent years has adopted ever-tougher curbs on the strippers. Most stringent of all was the order signed this month by outgoing Governor Edward T. Breathitt ten hours before turning over his office to incoming Republican Louie B. Nunn. The order forbids strip miners from working slopes steeper than 28°. Straight up in the air went the industry, thundering that it would be driven out of business, which was exactly what it said last year when the maximum slope was put at 33°. Since then, new operations have doubled to 12,000 acres, the amount...
...railway slope and watched the evening, Too beautifully perfect to use, And his three wishes were three stones too sharp to sit on, Too hard to carve. Three frozen idols of a speechless muse...
...victors. One paratrooper sat down to inscribe inside his helmet: "Nov. 23rd. Hill 875 is over. Thanksgiving Day." At week's end the survivors of the battle of Hill 875 held a simple memorial service, laying out the boots of their fallen comrades on a wind-whipped slope...