That deal closed in 1994, and shortly after Stavro bought Ballard's shares from the estate for $ 34 a share or $ 75 million.

Ballard's 1975 novel High Rise featured a luxury arcology in which disparity between social classes among the residents eventually led to widespread anarchy and a reversion to primitive archetypes.

Charles H. Ballard's self-cocking tilting-block action was produced by the Marlin Firearms Company from 1875, and earned a superlative reputation among long-range " Creedmoor " target shooters.

The Walker Delta is also known as the Ballard rosette, after A. H. Ballard's similar earlier work.

Ballard's notation is ( t, p, m ) where m is a multiple of the fractional offset between planes.

Ballard tried out this implant and it enabled him to walk again, but the neural profile of Adam ( from which the implant was taken ) was also imprinted in the implant, and it gradually ' leaked ' into Ballard's consciousness, effectively causing the residual ' mind ' of Adam to possess Ballard.

Ballard's short story, " Report on an Unidentified Space Station " ( 1982 ) may be regarded as an exploration of the metaphor of the BDO: in each successive report, the artifact's estimated size increases, people become lost within it.

Camacho won when Ballard's corner threw the towel.

J. G. Ballard's short story The Lost Leonardo, published in The Terminal Beach ( 1964 ), centres on a search for the Wandering Jew.

Charles H. Ballard's self-cocking tilting-block action was produced by the Marlin Firearms Company from 1875, and earned a superlative reputation among long-range " Creedmoor " target shooters.

Ernie Ballard's donation of for the site of a nature center and the funds to construct a visitor center, show of his great generosity, concern for the environment, and his foresight for the future.

On one track, Bunnell decided to rewrite Ballard's lyrics, and the successful song " The Border " was the result.

A second single, Ballard's " Cast the Spirit ", failed to chart.

Ballard's first dive in a submersible was in the Ben Franklin ( PX-15 ) in 1969 off the coast of Florida during a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution expedition.

The Navy agreed it would finance Ballard's Titanic search only if he first searched for and investigated the two sunken submarines, and found out the state of their nuclear reactors after being submerged for such a long time, and whether their radioactivity was impacting the environment.

Ballard's team took shifts monitoring the video feed from Argo as it searched the monotonous ocean floor two miles below.

Ballard's team made a general search of the vessel's exterior, noting its condition.

Ballard's team did not have much time to explore, as others were waiting to take Knorr on other scientific pursuits, but his fame was now assured.

Ballard's research has contributed to the debate over the Black Sea deluge theory.

James Brown produced Ballard's 1969 album You Can't Keep a Good Man Down.

The Tenth of fifteen children, Ballard's parents Lurlee ( née Wilson ) and Jessie Lambert Ballard had migrated from Rosetta, Mississippi, to participate in Detroit's then booming job market.

According to Wilson, Ballard's voice was so loud that she was made to stand up to seventeen feet away from her microphone during recording sessions, while the other two Supremes stood directly in front of their microphones.

Though Ballard's voice has been described as " soulful, big, rich, and commanding ", ranging from deep contralto to operatic soprano, Ross was made lead singer of the Supremes in late 1963.

Furthermore, stipulations in Ballard's contract with Motown prohibited Ballard from mentioning in any promotional materials or noting on the back of her album liner that she had ever been in the Supremes or recorded for Motown.

* April 9-Steve Stavro buys Maple Leaf Gardens from Harold Ballard's estate

According to Ballard's underwater surveys in recent years the British guns achieved only four penetrations of Bismarcks armour, two through the upper armour belt on the starboard side from King George V and two on the port side from Rodney.

Other Leaf players who clashed with Ballard's management did reconcile, most notably Keon's successor as club captain, Darryl Sittler, who accepted an invitation from GM Cliff Fletcher to return as a consultant.

On March 22, 1991, with the Leafs under new management after Ballard's death, Keon played on a team of Leaf all-stars against their counterparts from the Montreal Canadiens in an old-timers game at Maple Leaf Gardens called Legends ' Night in Canada.

In return, he was given an option to buy Gardens shares from Ballard's estate.

The purchase was the subject of a securities commission review and a lawsuit from Ballard's son Bill Ballard, but the deal stood and Stavro and his partners in MLG Ventures became the new owner of the Leafs and Maple Leaf Gardens.

Ballard's crew along with survivors who manage to gather in the jail are eventually wiped out by the miners after many fierce battles and events ( including Ballard's almost being possessed but fighting the ghost off and seeing its memories and motives ), leaving only her and Williams after Sergeant Jericho and the other remaining officers and the two operators of the train are killed upon returning from a brief retreat to finish the fight.

Jean Maillard ; portrait from Le Roy & Ballard's publications of his two volumes of motets, 1565

The TTC thus moved to remove the logos from the murals, until chairman Julian Porter, himself a lawyer knowledgeable on copyright issues, intervened and decided to take Ballard to court, believed that the artistic works could make free use of the logo even without Ballard's permission.

" The Dead Time " ( 1977 ) is a quasi-autobiographical tale suggested by Ballard's release from a Japanese prison camp at the close of World War II — part of the subject matter which later inspired the novel Empire of the Sun, which, however, features totally different characters and story line.

The book covers the story of Wilson's life from her childhood, to meeting Florence Ballard and Diana Ross and forming the Primettes ( later The Supremes ), to the group's later international success and personal conflicts in the 1960s, Ballard's replacement with Cindy Birdsong in 1967, the development of Ross as a solo act, and Ross ' split from the group in 1969-1970.

However, in a 1988 interview Morrison said the principal inspiration wasn't Jerry Cornelius but J. G. Ballard's " The Day of Forever ", although in a much later interview Morrison admitted some influence from Moorcock on parts of the story: " King Mob's ' Gideon Stargrave ' stories are direct quotes from the Michael Moorcock-inspired short stories I wrote obsessively when I was 17 ".

For example, Bill Haley's incompletely bowdlerized cover of " Shake, Rattle and Roll " transformed Big Joe Turner's humorous and racy tale of adult love into an energetic teen dance number, while Georgia Gibbs replaced Etta James's tough, sarcastic vocal in " Roll With Me, Henry " ( covered as " Dance With Me, Henry ") with a perkier vocal more appropriate for an audience unfamiliar with the song to which James's song was an answer, Hank Ballard's " Work With Me, Annie ".

Jenkins took an interest in Ballard's voice after Ballard auditioned for him in her living room.

The singles failed to chart, and Ballard's album for ABC was shelved.

Third, although 1997 was marked by analysts as a turning point for 3dfx due to the marketing led by the new CEO Greg Ballard, there was criticism of Ballard's understanding of R & D in the graphics industry.

Ballard's group gained fame for originating " The Twist ", later a monster dance craze and hit for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame excludee Chubby Checker, and for its risque series of " Annie " songs, including " Work With Me Annie " and " Annie Had a Baby.

Ballard's solution was to make the CBC pay for the upgrade.

Just as Ballard's trial was beginning, he told Hockey Canada that they were welcome to use any member of the Leafs on the Canadian team, could use Maple Leaf Gardens for their training camp, and could use the building for any or all of the games in the series, with the Gardens ' share of the gate receipts being donated to the NHL players ' pension fund.

Starting in 1967, Birdsong began to appear as a stand-in vocalist for Supremes founder Florence Ballard when Ballard's bout with alcoholism had caused her to miss important gigs.

Bitter over his treatment by Ballard and the Leafs, Keon refused for many years to have any relationship with the Leafs organization, even after Ballard's death and after the club changed ownership several times.

However, financing fell through and Roeg and Thomas did Bad Timing instead, and Thomas later went on to adapt Ballard's Crash for the screen with director David Cronenberg.

Despite, or because of, its salacious lyrics, it was immediately successful in the R & B market, topping the R & B chart for seven weeks, and led to several sequels, including Ballard's " Annie Had A Baby " and Etta James ' first hit " The Wallflower ", also known as " Roll With Me, Henry ".

Some of Sylvia Plath's earliest poems and J. G. Ballard's first published story were written for the paper.

* Website illustrating various covers used for the book Vermilion Sands and Ballard's comment comparing it in 1975 to current European Mediterranean resorts: