Word: hangers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 now comes a squalid epilogue: Cathy Smith, 35, a sorry hanger-on who was apparently the last person to see Belushi alive, has claimed that she gave him numerous drug injections, including the fatal one. Smith, a Canadian, is in Toronto, and she has not been charged with any crime. Still, the police and district attorney in Los Angeles have reopened...
...coal-mining is an incredible sight. Two hundred feet below where the hillside was a few years ago, dump trucks bigger than houses haul 175-ton loads of rock. The Martiki mining operation is centered around the "Mountain Mover," a power shovel about the size of a small airplane hanger. The shovel's huge bucket--which can easily hold a pickup truck--takes 76-cubic-foot bites out of the mountain 24 hours...
...that Fred Astaire would break in a new suit by throwing it against a wall until it yielded up a spontaneous modification of its original cut. Armani wanted the modification without the wall, a notion that could easily have been lost in the translation from sketch to hanger...
...cyclone fence, that range over several acres north of Amarillo, Texas. The heavily guarded facility is owned by the Department of Energy, but the day-to-day business of building warheads and bombs at the site is the responsibility of the little-known Kentucky-based engineering firm of Mason & Hanger-Silas Mason...
...roses appeared on desk tops and smiles lit up faces at the Fogg Art Museum earlier this week as a three-wek "cliff-hanger" over the fare of the Museum's proposed extension ended happily. On Saturday President Bok announced he would approve plans for the $16.5 million building, if officials could raise $3 million by March 15, and an additional $3 million over the next three years. The Overseers' Visiting Committee to the Fogg, which will be responsible for raising the funds is confident they will have no trouble meeting Bok's deadlines. Since the president cancelled the plans...