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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waves falling on a mile of beach contain an estimated 65 Mw of power, but that force is difficult to harness. The British, French and Japanese are working on wave-power projects. Most involve some kind of rafts hinged together by pistons; the rocking motion forces the pistons to pump water that turns turbines. A different U.S. plan, now being studied by Lockheed, would use a 250-ft.-diameter man-made "atoll" tethered at sea. Looking like a giant doughnut, it would float with its top just above the surface. The waves surging across the rim would flow down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Energy: Fuels off the Future | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

DIED. George Brent, 75, Irish-born film heartthrob of the '30s and '40s best remembered as the surgeon who loves but cannot save Bette Davis in the classic 1939 tearjerker Dark Victory; of emphysema; in Solana Beach, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 11, 1979 | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

DIED. Lou Little, 87, peppery football coach at Columbia University for 26 seasons beginning in 1930; of a heart attack; in Delray Beach, Fla. Little's teams were famous for upset victories, among them a 1934 Rose Bowl win over Stanford, but his most enduring legacy was a winning-isn't-the-only-thing philosophy that was reflected in the de-emphasis of football throughout the Ivy League in the 1950s. The sport, he worried, had become "a sensible game surrounded by crazy people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 11, 1979 | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...College on the Charles" was almost the "College on the Beach"--in the 1630s, when the Overssers of the hypothetical institution, now known as Harvard College, were searching for a location to settle, they came close to accepting an offer of 300 ocean-bordered acres of land in Salem, Mass. Instead, they chose Newtowne, which was renamed Cambridge the year the school opened...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Hate-Hate Relationship | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

About 20 small boats supporting anti-nuclear signs bobbed in the swells along the beach while a predominantly young crowd listened to George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus, say "nuclear power is not only anti-life but an economic disaster...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Police Arrest 500 Protesters At N.Y. Nuclear Power Protest | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

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