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...mistaking them. Some look like a cake mold capable of turning out angel food for 2,500. Others look like a louvered back door from a tract house in Brobdingnag, or a creature from a 1950s horror movie-the wretched spawn of reckless radioactive experimentation, the amazing colossal sand dollar...
...proposal to build a hydroelectric plant there. Company stockholders were receptive because the dam faced financial troubles. The Department of the Interior had ordered the company to construct a $1.5 million fish ladder to help the Merrimack River's growing schools of Atlantic salmon move upstream to spawn. The company stockholders agreed to sell out to the investment group, which later formed a partnership with E G & G, a Wellesley, Mass., energy-equipment company (1980 sales: $613 million). Financing for the $28 million project came from Chase Manhattan Bank, Mutual of New York insurance company and two smaller...
...have been uninspiring, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Calvin Klein not withstanding, but they did spawn two social phenomena likely to ripple through the 1980's and beyond. The first is a spreading fear that the human race has brought on its imminent destruction--thanks to (pick one) environmental disruption, the baseball strike, nuclear holocaust, or over-population. Doomsayers include the gloomy Limits to Growth study (on population), former President Jimmy Carter (on energy) and futurologist Herbert W. Armstrong, who once said 'all the prophesies have been fulfilled.' They have called for varying degrees of repentance and reform, to delay...
...samurai? Attorney Jim Murphy, who normally attends about 75% of Houston's home games, has found a peculiar substitute for baseball: opera, an art form that the sport somewhat resembles-at least if Billy Martin or Earl Weaver is involved. "My wife," says Murphy, "thinks this strike will spawn a cultural revolution...
...uncertain guide to a President's success. John Kennedy's 100 days were unrelieved disaster and hesitation, and his temper suffered accordingly: "I'm going to give this damned job to Nixon," he once said. It took Lyndon Johnson a year to spawn the Great Society, Richard Nixon three years to engineer the opening to China...