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...silver tray nestled in sediment. Bottles of vintage Bordeaux wine scattered on the ocean floor. A gaping hole where once a giant smokestack had stood. The ship's bridge, damaged by a falling boom. These and other poignant images of disaster, all in Picasso blue, were distributed in Washington last week at a news conference held by Marine Geologist Robert Ballard, leader of the expedition that early this month located and photographed the sunken liner Titanic. They were only a few of the 12,000 photos shot at the bottom of the Atlantic by the unmanned submersibles Argo and Angus...
...Titanic was in "pristine" condition, but portions of the hull seemed to show the lethal gash inflicted by the iceberg, and the stern of the ship had been wrested from the main body. No human remains were seen. In one alarming incident, Argo scraped against a Titanic smokestack, but the sub emerged intact. At week's end the crew packed up and headed for shore...
...19th century European immigrants to the U.S. combined -- migrated from the rural South, the poorest area of the country, to the urban North. Many of today's urban blacks are only the second generation in the city, and their parents arrived at a time when the smokestack economy was spluttering...
Economists and executives in other industries are more divided on the likely impact and merits of the tax-reform plan. Aside from real estate, the plan would weigh most heavily on "smokestack" industries such as steel and autos with heavy investments in plant and equipment that could no longer qualify for the investment tax credit or speeded-up depreciation write-offs. These are the very industries threatened most by foreign competition. The plan, said a Ford Motor Co. statement, "will have an adverse effect on capital formation in the creation of new jobs in the industrial sector . . . Overall...
...fourth book Robert Ward has attempted to update a half-forgotten relic of the '30s: the proletarian novel, with its idealized workers and smokestack suburbs. Ward's contemporary laborers are not moved by Woody Guthrie's lyrics; they rock to Mick Jagger and Aretha Franklin. They are not Dead End slum dwellers; they are Viet Nam vets and night-school dropouts. Their collars may be blue, but their lives run in the black: sheepskin jackets and vacations at the beach...