Methanol Uses. While the U.S. government formerly mandated the addition of methanol to gasoline in the form of MTBE, an additive that boosted octane, such use has been reduced since the late 1990s following federal recognition of MTBE's high potential for contaminating groundwater (see References 8).
Biography by Hal Erickson. Actor George Hamilton got his start in high school dramatics. Movie-star handsome, Hamilton played the lead in his very first film, Crime and Punishment USA (1959). While his acting talent was barely discernible in his earliest effort, Hamilton steadily improved in such MGM films as Home From the Hill (1960), Where the Boys Are (1960), Light in the Piazza (1961).
Actor Ralph Waite, best known for playing John Walton Sr-Papa Walton-in the long-running TV show The Waltons, has died at the age of 85. Ralph was a good honest actor and a good honest man, said Michael Learned, who played his on-screen wife Olivia. He was my spiritual husband. We loved each other for over 40 years.