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She was the first man-o'-war of England's fledgling Royal Navy and a special source of pride to Henry VIII, founding genius of that noble institution. In 1509, Bluff King Hal named the 130-ft., 700-ton, four-masted carrack, which became the vice flagship of...
Even Watt's allies in business and Government think his provocative rhetoric and willful manner are sometimes counterproductive. And perhaps because Watt, as Simpson says, "is convinced that he has God on his side," he can hardly bring himself to make even a pretense of accommodation. "There are some...
If the buy-out works, of course, Weirton Steel will have made a startling transformation, from one capitalist's prosperous fief to the principal U.S. enclave of-yes-a kind of homespun socialism. But Weirtonians think more in terms of preserving a place where rich, hard-working lives have...
Perhaps because he never knew his father, Mumford collected a number of tempestuous mentors, including Economist Thorstein Veblen ("a strange combination of the austere, seemingly superobjective scholar and a passionate, willful human being"), Critic Van Wyck Brooks and, above all, Patrick Geddes, the Scottish social theorist recognized as the father...
For a week after Comedian John Belushi's death last March, sensationalist headline followed sensationalist headline. Finally, it seemed, all the ugly details were out. The dissolute star had died from an injected overdose of heroin and cocaine-a "speedball."* Public interest wandered on to more seemly news. But...