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...more than 100 European, Canadian and U.S. firms that could provide the necessary equipment for a plant. Using a network of phony businesses as cover, Pakistan began to acquire and transfer to Islamabad technology from Western Europe and North America. Items in the covert pipeline ranged from special steel tubing to precision measuring equipment to specialized electronics. In 1978, some 400 tons of uranium oxide, the basic feedstock in producing enriched uranium, was secretly obtained from Niger, with the connivance of Libya...
Seven years ago, on his 41st birthday, Philip Glass was driving a New York City taxicab. From the age of 17 he had worked as a hotel night clerk, an airport baggage loader, a crane operator in a steel mill, a furniture mover and a plumber, all the while pursuing his real vocation: composer. Glass, however, was not hoping to make a big score with a pop song or a Broadway show. Rather, he was that least salable commodity, a revolutionary avant- gardist...
...been waitressing 40 years, 20 of them in this truck stop. As she talks she polishes the stainless steel, fills mustard jars, adds the menu inserts for today's special (hot turkey sandwich, mashed potatoes and gravy, pot of coffee...
FATHER. My father is first-generation Italian. He was the youngest of six boys. My grandparents came from Italy on the boat. They went to Pennsylvania, a town right outside of Pittsburgh, because the steel mills are there and there was a lot of work. They lived in sort of an Italian ghetto-type neighborhood, and my grandfather got a job in a steel mill. My grandmother and grandfather spoke no English at all. They are dead now, but when I was a little girl I would see them all the time. They weren't very educated, and I think...
DIED. Charles Shipman Payson, 86, sportsman, philanthropist and industrialist (steel, uranium, oil and railroads), and with his late first wife, Heiress Joan Whitney Payson, long a mainstay of the social columns; in Lexington, Ky. Born in Maine, Payson donated more than $23 million to the Portland Museum of Art and was also a major backer of the America's Cup yachts. After his second marriage in 1977 to Virginia Kraft, then a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED editor, they established their own breeding farm, racing stable and training center...