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...create an additional 2,000 related jobs in the community. Among Portland's winning inducements to the Bath (Me.) Iron Works company: $15 million worth of renovations and construction of piers that will be leased to the company. In Colorado, Fort Collins appears to be the victor in a three-town battle for a proposed Anheuser-Busch brewery that would create 500 jobs in the plant and 1,200 elsewhere. While the city of Pueblo offered 409 free acres of land and Greeley put together a land-and-amenities package worth $46 million, the deciding factor was Fort Collins...
...weekend, Roberta Flack sings, the U.S. Army Field Band plays The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Presidential Aide Edwin Meese and General William Westmoreland defend embattled political positions, young musicians keep dates with Tchaikovsky under the stars. The resort's daily newspaper warns culture vultures to prepare for Victor Borge, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, discussions of abortion and contraception, and an address by the president of the National Council of Churches. It is not a great surprise to learn that a new course has just been added to the Chautauqua curriculum. Its title is "Battling Burn...
...precinct, and then got down to business, agreeing to buy ⅛ oz. of coke for $300. The conversation was recorded by a pair of miniature microphones fastened to Watson's chest. Eavesdropping in a van out side were Sandberg and Chandler. In a nearby car was IAD Officer Victor Howard, 37, who, like Watson, Chandler and all but one of the indicted dealers, is black...
Such difficulties are not surprising. "These pills are made from kidney-bean extract," explains Dr. Victor Herbert, chief of the hematology and nutrition laboratory at the Bronx Veterans Hospital in New York. "There is a chemical in beans that reduces the speed of starch digestion. If you don't digest the starch, then it goes down into your colon, where bacteria ferment and make gas out of it. That gas can give you nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and diarrhea, as well as making you socially unacceptable...
...Soviets turned to the West largely to obtain cut-rate financing-in other words, a subsidy at the expense of Western European taxpayers-not because they needed foreign know-how. The Soviets already produce sophisticated aircraft turbines, which require expertise in high-temperature technology, aerodynamics and stress analysis. Says Victor de Biasi, editor of Connecticut-based Gas Turbine World magazine: "Anybody who can produce aircraft turbines of as high a caliber as the Soviets do can darn well produce turbines for use on earth." Indeed, French and West German companies last week were discussing the possibility of substituting Soviet turbines...