Word: supers
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...would be hauled in a fleet of 20 LNG (for liquefied natural gas) supertankers, a new class of vessels that will cost as much as $100 million each. They are known among shipbuilders as "super thermos bottles" for the mountains of insulation encircling their holds to keep the gas at -259° F., its liquefying point. Tenneco stands to be cut in as contractor for at least several of those vessels: it happens to own the nation's largest shipbuilding operation, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock...
That tireless sports fan, Richard Milhous Nixon, has been at it again. Since he proved ineffective in dealing with football futures earlier this year (his diagrammed play did not keep the Miami Dolphins from losing 24-3 to the Dallas Cowboys in the Super Bowl), he turned this time to baseball past. At the behest of an RKO General radio reporter, and later in a bylined article for the Associated Press, President Nixon elaborately documented his choices for an alltime, All-Star baseball team...
...Pompidou had made up his mind to sack Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas, replacing him with Old Gaullist Pierre Messmer. Brandt, in turn, had in his pocket an angry five-page letter of resignation from the man who until recently had been the star of his Cabinet, Karl Schiller, the super-Minister who held both the Finance and Economics portfolios...
Even so, the net effect of the agreements may be, as Columnist I.F. Stone protests, merely to move the situation "from the super-crazy to the plain crazy." Yarmolinsky laments that it seems impossible to get back to the ideal situation "where, under the worst circumstances, some strategist in the Kremlin will turn to a colleague and say, 'But Ivan, if we go ahead with that plan they'll turn the Soviet Union into a large lake.' " Both sides already have the capability to carve out several large lakes. The massive commitment to offensive weapons is such...
Hamburgers can be had in nearly any shape or form at Barley's Burger Cottage (1246 Mass Ave). Starting from the basic Bun 'n' Burger, Bartley escalates to the Muenster Cheeseburger, the Super Pizzaburger, the Hawaii Pineapple Burger, the Texas Chiliburger and on ad nauseum...