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...Mile Island in an otherwise scenic bend in the river. The men in the control room had heard those sirens before. They went about their task of meeting what looked at first like just another "transient," a minor glitch somewhere in the complex system like so many they had dealt with in the past. Unit 2's huge turbine, which generates 880 megawatts of electricity, had "tripped," shut down automatically, as it should when the steam that turns it has somehow been cut off. The technicians assumed that the cause would be easy to find and correct...
...trading also involves flocks of individual entrepreneurs, who often make their main living by cutting stones for manufacturers. A typical diamond cutter last week sat in his office, high above 47th Street, and dealt with an elderly broker standing before him. The cutter examined a packet of raw stones with his loupe. He shook his head, wrapped the packet up and handed it back to the broker. The old man wearily placed it in his old leather pouch, held together with tape and rubber bands, and produced another packet. The two haggled for a moment in Yiddish and then...
...Violinist Marylou Speaker, whose gift to the Peking Central Philharmonic was a metronome. "You sometimes hear amateur groups rushing the pace at home. The tendency is to tense up in a tough passage. When things got hard, Liu took off and was out of context with the music." Ozawa dealt with the same problem in working with the Peking Philharmonic. "Chinese musicians are sensitive and brilliant," he says. "But the steadiness of rhythm, the kind of repetition and restatement of theme that makes Western music exciting, is difficult for them. They keep going faster and do not hold the ends...
...that country is unable to meet its needs on the world market. ?Egypt will drop its demand for an Egyptian liaison office in Gaza and its insistence that Gaza Palestinians have an implied priority over West Bank Palestinians in achieving autonomy. These two matters will be dealt with in the next stage of Egyptian-Israeli negotiations. ? Israel will withdraw from the western half of the Sinai within nine months and will do so in stages, as Sadat had requested. In return, Cairo will agree to exchange ambassadors with Jerusalem one month after that phase of the military withdrawal...
This may explain why such crafty old twirlers as Ring Lardner, James Thurber, Damon Runyon and P.G. Wodehouse spun tales about the sport. Usually they played it for laughs. Lardner's Alibi Ike dealt with a peculiar rookie, using comic vernacular: "I've heard infielders complain of a sore arm after heavin' one into the stand, and I've saw outfielders tooken sick with a dizzy spell when they've misjudged a fly ball. But this baby can't even go to bed without apologizin', and I bet he excuses himself...