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...Willard D. McNown, a semiretired chiropractor, moved away from the Ridgemark Country Club last year. About 2 in. He did the same the year before. First the living room and an upstairs bedroom moved, then the library and kitchen. The garage, or at least one side of it, followed a little later. Walls cracked, ceilings split and doors jammed. Before long, scientists and sightseers were arriving by the busload...
...troubling upswing: mine mishaps killed 106 men in 1978, 133 in 1980 and 155 last year. The Mink Branch disaster was one of seven major Kentucky mining accidents in seven weeks; since the first of the year, 31 U.S. coal miners have been killed on the job. Says Willard Stanley, Kentucky's Commissioner of Mines and Minerals: "Something is going wrong...
...them, all in their 20s, all chosen on the basis of their exceptional promise, not their past work. Today, members of that first set of fellows have gone on to become the Putnam Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Garrett Birkhoff; the Pierce Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Willard V.O. Quine; and the Pierce Professor Emeritus of Psychology, B.F. Skinner...
...mile-long track, I was definitely not psyched. So I decided on a plan for working my way up to the Mt. Everest of roller coasters--I would ride the park's lesser ones first. The name of the tiniest one should have been enough to turn me away. "Willard's Whizzer" whirled like the spin-dry cycle of a washing machine, and anything that goes in circles makes me sick. I rode it anyway...
When the ride was over, I did it again. And again. And again. Three times in an hour. I stayed away from "Willard's Whizzer," but I rode the "Tidal Wave" and "The Demon" twice more each. In my euphoria, I decided I could do just about anything. So I ended the day with a spin on the merry-go-round. It made me very sick to my stomach...