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...trying to extract sulfur not from smoke but from the coal itself. At a pilot plant near Birmingham, Southern dissolves coal with a recoverable chemical solvent. The coal is filtered to remove impurities and then resolidified. The final product is a clean fuel that has virtually no sulfur or ash and a very high heat value. Cost per ton promises to be competitive...
...PARTICULAR IMAGE stays in my mind after looking at this show of work by one of the best photographers around Harvard right now. Its a cylindrical ash container outside some office elevator, door. The shape is lit-clean, and glows there in the middle of the picture like some future's icon to insignificance...
...load a poor ash tray too full, but the kind of contained glow that radiates in this photograph, and the similar "charging" of the matter of fact that happens in a lot of Alex Webb's photographs is a good model for what photography can do best. There is an outsider's distance, even arrogance, here that picks its images intelligently and admits the choosing straight-forwardly, just by seeming so plain...
...from Watergate. But in recent months, as the scandal has howled round the White House, Nixon has been isolating himself more and more. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger flew out to spend four days in San Clemente; despite their close association, he saw the President only twice. Roy Ash, director of the White House's Office of Management and Budget, went out for one weekend to talk over the budget for the next fiscal year and never did get to see the boss. Indeed, Ash has met with the President only three times to discuss final decisions...
...Washington, Roy Ash, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, was busy at the same ploy. His account of the coming year sketched a productive curve hardly dented by the growing energy crisis and the massive threats of world recession. Again, as it should, the word went out. But the correspondents knew that the worries within the Administration were far more profound than Ash stated (and probably believed...