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...students received a concussion when his head hit the ground and was taken to Rhode Island for treatment by his personal physician, Heath said. The other students were not seriously injured, Heath said...
...Rhode Island is developing the former U.S. Navy base at Quonset Point, the first home of World War II's ubiquitous Quonset huts, into an industrial park. Some 95 companies are already in place, including General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division, which employs 4,500 workers making nuclear submarine components. Kenyon Industries, of Kenyon, R.I., closed its Rossville, Ga., plant in August 1979 and consolidated its textile-finishing operations entirely in the smallest state. Says Chairman David Curtis: "The change in attitude of the New England governments was certainly a factor. We feel that if we have a problem...
...contains the New England Suite by Vally Weigl (b. 1894), widow of the composer Karl Weigl. Moore collaborates here with clarinettist Stanley Drucker and pianist Ilse Sass in a work of modest charm, consisting of "Vermont Nocturne," "Maine Interlude," "Berkshire Pastorale," and "Connecticut Country Fair" (better luck next time, Rhode Island). Moore plays almost perfectly, though the work makes no inordinate demands on its performers...
...Berkshires of western Massachusetts, retired Businessman Percy Newbery, 58, is generating an average of $30 worth of electricity per month by means of a windmill device that looks like a jet engine and sits on a 75-ft. wooden pole beside his house. In Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island and Ohio, industrial-size wind generators are operating under Government testing programs...
...seemingly peaceful worlds of the Navajo woman and the Hopi dancers are colliding, and bloodshed is possible. In the northeast corner of Arizona, a century-old conflict between the neighboring Hopi and Navajo nations over an area of mesa and desert land the size of the state of Rhode Island is finally approaching its sad conclusion...