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...ammunition, and headed for a nearby shopping mall in Palm Bay, Fla. (pop. 45,000). He opened fire through the plate-glass windows of a crowded Winn Dixie supermarket and an adjacent jewelry shop. Stan Graybush, 45, was near a check-out line inside the Winn Dixie. "I heard boom boom boom," he said. "I yelled, 'Get on the floor!' There must have been 50 people running in all different directions...
...boom in technology has been an added burden, especially for research universities that have to keep up with the latest computer and scientific hardware, regardless of price. At the University of Chicago, the $225,000 allotment that covered equipment for physiology and biology research ten years ago has grown to $1.4 million. Moreover, universities must scramble to replace outdated facilities. Says Northwestern's Weber: "We have buildings here that cost $1 million to build 80 years ago, and cost $5 million just to repair." And books are not any cheaper. To maintain its library, Northwestern orders 29,000 periodicals...
McDonald's constantly shifts along with the changes in the U.S. work force. For example, the post-baby boom shortage of McDonald's traditional workers, suburban teens, has prompted the company to recruit older workers through a program called McMasters. Roughly 10% of McDonald's workers are over 50, and 5% are over 60. At 83, Anne LaFave wields a mop as a cleaning worker at a ( Chicago outlet, a job she has held for seven years. Says she: "I have a whole new family, all the kids in the store. I'm happy to stay busy...
Savannah: Talmadge Memorial Bridge. The city's hopes of becoming a major port are pinned on modernizing the bridge to allow passage of bigger ships. Talmadge Memorial was struck by a cargo boom of the U.S.S. Callaghan during military exercises in July 1983, underscoring the need to raise the span from its current 136-ft. height to 175 ft. Price: $90 million. Federal share: $53 million...
...life in each decade of this century. Ma Rainey depicted the self- imposed racial isolation of a 1920s blues singer. His second play to reach Broadway, Fences, which opened last week, portrays the frustration of a former Negro-leagues baseball player in the industrial North of the 1950s, a boom time that is passing this man by. Too old to make the move to the majors, too much a country boy to seek an education and get ahead, too embittered to believe in the hope the civil rights movement is beginning to offer, Garbage Man Troy Maxson is vividly particular...