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...stumble neither way: Hope weighs a ton...
...costs, fired unproductive employees, eliminated worthless products while bol stering a profitable line of recirculating toilets for aircraft. Stone had acquired this talent shortly after graduating from law school, when overnight he made a reputation - and a pile of cash - as a resuscitator of sick companies for Hous ton Fearless Corp. In 1954, the com pany split up, and he joined International Glass, a former division...
Cacoyannis, who not only produced and wrote the script but designed the chorus boys' clothes, tries hard to pull everyone together at the finale to make a momentous point about the atomic age. With no result. His 1,000,000-mega-ton bomb has enough cinematic overkill to bore to death every man, woman and hermaphrodite from here to Athens...
...district has been turning its sludge into fertilizer, but the manure demand is declining and this is a losing business to the tune of $45 a ton. And a system of underwater burning which will be installed soon is hideously expensive. The district is buying up farmlands in rural Illinois where they may ship the sludge as land fill, though some trustees think that even talking about this kind of solution frightens residents and makes the problem worse...
...hospital was evacuated. A quarter of Harlingen's population was taken to higher ground in outlying areas. Upstream at Mercedes (pop. 10,081), frantic crews dumped twelve-ton bales of car bodies into the gap at the broken weir, but the arroyo swallowed everything with hardly a gulp, and downstream the tide climbed inexorably. Then liquid fingers poked through a levee north of Harlingen, sending a second spearhead of water toward the heart of town. Surrounded, isolated, exhausted, Harlingen was engulfed...