Word: ark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become involved in such a disastrous futility in the first place; for others because the U.S., as they believed, had betrayed an ally and nullified the years of its own sacrifice. As he was about to go for coffee with some bankers and businessmen in Warren, Ark., Newspaper Editor Bob Newton remarked: "Viet Nam will never come up in the conversation. Everybody is embarrassed. It is almost unreal that this could have happened...
...McClellan (D-Ark.), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, would further military assistance would only prolong human suffering in Indochina...
...small lifeboat for some of those passengers, Todd and McLarney have created a prototype agricultural "ark," a self-sufficient food-producing complex involving greenhouses, fish ponds, solar heaters and a windmill. The odd layout is clustered around three greenhouse-covered ponds built on an incline. The lowest pond contains a variety of edible fish, mostly the tasty tropical tilapia (somewhat like the sunfish). Pumped by the windmill, the water from this pond is passed through a solar heater, then circulated through a bed of crushed, bacteria-laden shells in the topmost pond. The bacteria not only detoxify the fish wastes...
...first year, the ark's main 8,000-gallon pond has produced two 50-lb. crops of fish-a better yield, says Todd, than achieved by China's successful aquaculture ponds. Not counting the $9,000-a-year salaries (plus $2,000 per dependent) that the institute has begun to pay some of its dozen full-time staffers the entire cost of building and stocking the ark was only...
...Todd's wife Nancy, has a growing circulation. Money has begun to come in from foundations like the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. A New Alchemy Institute West has been set up in Pescadero, Calif., south of San Francisco. The Canadian-born Todd plans to build a new ark on Prince Edward Island, Canada; another offshoot is being started up in Costa Rica, where McLarney is now looking for other varieties offish to raise...