Word: ashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only half a year ago, Roy Ash, president of California's Litton Industries, sounded like a man who had seen light at the end of a tunnel. Profits of the troubled conglomerate in 1972, he confidently predicted, would increase substantially over their lackluster showing of $50 million in 1971, and one reason for the gain would be Litton's $ 130 million shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. Ash calls the ultramodern facility, opened about two years ago, "a national asset that will make U.S. shipbuilding competitive in world markets...
Fighting Canines. Elaine Morgan's scientific credentials do not quite measure up to those of, say, Charles Darwin. A 51-year-old mother of three children who lives in Mountain Ash, Wales, she earned an Oxford degree in English and gleaned most of her information about science "from reading books." Two men in particular inspired her. The first was Amateur Ethologist Robert Ardrey, the failed but imaginative playwright whose views she now rejects. The second was Oxford Zoologist Sir Alister Hardy, an authority on plankton who thought up a nonsexist version of aquatic evolution about a dozen years...
Storecard. Even at the present level, however, electric-power plants are a major source of air pollution: 50% of the sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere, 20% of the nitrogen oxides, 20% of the soot and ash. Can technology reduce this pollution? Yes, according to a new study by the Manhattan-based Council on Economic Priorities, a nonprofit organization that reports to concerned investors (churches, universities, foundations) on subjects involving corporate responsibility. But many utilities have been slow to install proven and existing equipment, the study says, or to develop alternative power sources...
Meanwhile on the left, the Labor opposition led by Harold Wilson dithers irresolutely, divided on economic policy and on Europe. The white-hot Wilson who fronted the technological challenge of his 1964 victory is a gray ash of his former self-and his credibility is as fragile. His is not the Cromwellian voice that might save the workers from the siren calls of industrial and political anarchy. No longer is there that "we are on our way" zest of ten years ago. Barring a hard-to-foresee miracle, there is a long, hot summer ahead for Britain...
...bull's-eye right away," he boasts. "We struck at the heart of the most aristocratic quarter." Buildings standing two and three stories high, with 50-ft. street fronts, "French doors" and traces of balconies, were found still upright, protected by the dry volcanic ash that enveloped them before the final massive explosion. Upward of 3,500 ceramic pots and vases have been found, but no human or animal remains and no valuables. Marinates explains that the people of the town, warned of the impending disaster by earth tremors and ominous outpourings of ash and gases must have fled...