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...Harvard Square project poses a weight problem. With only 20-ton steel beams holding up the ceiling of the subway station beneath it. Omphalos cannot exceed 35 tons. By working back and forth from a half-size model to a hand-held quarter-size one. Hadzi hopes to accommodate the restriction. Eventually he will build a full-size model, perhaps in the Carpenter Center basement. Clearly, a concern for public safety puts constraints on Hadzi's work. But it was reassuring in the late 60s when war protestors climbed to the top of Thermopylae outside Boston City Hall...
When Congress last year killed the dense pack basing plan for the MX, the 96-ton ten-warhead missile seemed permanently grounded. Then the blue-ribbon Scowcroft Commission recommended last month that the U.S. develop a smaller, possibly mobile, single-warhead Midgetman missile. In the meantime, the commission suggested, the U.S. should demonstrate its political will by placing 100 MX missiles in existing Minuteman silos, even though these sites might be vulnerable to attack. Key members of Congress wanted the Midgetman, as well as a more flexible approach to arms control. President Reagan wanted the MX and was willing...
...named Crédit Agricole for the bank that sponsored it, beat by an astonishing 28½ days the previous record for a single-hulled boat, set last year by Australian Neville Gosson. This time Gosson was expected to finish fourth among the larger boats. Jeantot's eleven-ton 56-footer even shaved ten days off the previous single-handed circumnavigation record, set in a trimaran by fellow Frenchman Alain Colas in 1973-74. Jeantot's large monohull also set new race records for the fastest noon-to-noon run (240 miles) and seven...
...fact, fair market value, the crux of the issue, is virtually impossible to calculate. The Government, which owns an estimated 34% of the nation's 475-billion-ton coal reserve, has routinely leased public land for coal extraction since 1920. In 1971, in order to evaluate its procedures, the Government declared a moratorium on federal coal leases. The hiatus, which did not end until 1981, effectively froze the market for coal leases, making future evaluations of tracts difficult. A 1976 reform requiring new leaseholders to mine their fields within ten years or forfeit their rights further complicated the mathematics...
...Suddenly Captain Robert J. Kelly, at the helm of the carrier U.S.S. Enterprise and a mere 1,700 yds. from voyage's end in San Francisco Bay, felt what he called "a very deep feeling in the pit of my stomach." His 1,123-ft.-long, 75,700-ton nuclear-powered vessel had veered out of its 42-ft.-deep channel and slid to a stop in 29 ft. of water...