Word: vulcan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strangest remodeling jobs undertaken by the U.S. Navy. Inside the aging repair ship U.S.S. Vulcan, anchored at Norfolk, Va., aluminum sheeting is being stretched from floor to ceiling to divide the sleeping quarters. Near by, urinals are being ripped out, while extra electrical outlets are being provided for hair dryers...
...years, residents of Vulcan (pop. 200), W. Va., pleaded with state and federal officials for money to rebuild a 70-year-old bridge across the Big Sandy River that had collapsed from old age. Finally, to shame the bureaucrats into action, John Robinette, honorary mayor of the isolated mountain town, melodramatically applied to the Soviet Union for foreign...
Horrors! The stunt worked all too well. A Manhattan-based representative of Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta hopped on a plane for Vulcan. A Russian charity committee said it was willing to consider a donation to help reopen the Big Sandy. Said Robinette, aghast at what he had unleashed: "Lord, Lord, get me out of this mess." Happily, someone did. State Highway Commissioner Charles L. Miller suddenly announced a $500,000, one-lane bridge for Vulcan, to be built within a year. All of which caused the New York Times to suggest, tongue in cheek, that if the Soviets were...
...founders, California State University Student Richard Stellar (his real last name, he insists), reports that orders are now coming in at the rate of 25 to 50 a day. The most sought after extraterrestrial neighborhood is the planet Vulcan, popularized by Star Trek's Mr. Spock. "We're only at the grass-roots beginning," proclaims Stellar...
...this year-or at least not so "Vulcanically." One unamused woman last year resisted a Krewe member's kiss and, after he persisted, took her grievance to the St. Paul human rights commission. She argued that the exchange of sooty kisses should be limited to consenting adults. So, when the carnival opens later this month, new rules will be in force. Only one Vulcan will be allowed to fire off blanks. No kissing will be permitted-only a messy smudging of the cheeks and only with consent...