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...Gravitt, the 51-year-old chief executive in Texas for Southwestern Bell, of which he was a vice president walked into the garage of his $120,000 north Dallas home, turned on the ignition of his Oldsmobile and settled back to die of carbon monoxide poisoning. Later that day, Gravitt's family and Bell colleagues found in his briefcase a nine-page memo accusing his company of political payoffs, illegal wiretapping and using questionable bookkeeping to secure telephone rate increases. A hand-scribbled message added, "There is bound to be much more. Watergate is a gnat compared...
...mere 25,000 miles. To make it in the alloted time, Superman would have to travel at a cool 1 million m.p.h. This may be within his capacity, but Miss Lane could never survive. The air friction at that speed would reduce her to a pile of red-hot carbon ash and cruelly terminate her affair with our red-caped hero. Finally, it is unlikely that Superman and his lady love would even stay in earth orbit at the speed required for their 90-sec. trip round the world. After all, spacecraft orbit the earth at 24,000 m.p.h. Heaven...
AUTO EMISSIONS. Under the 1970 act, automakers had until the 1975 model year to eliminate 90% of all hydrocarbons (HC), carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen oxides (NOx). Detroit has cut harmful emissions considerably: this year's General Motors cars, for example, produce 90% less HC and 83% less CO than those of the early 1960s. But faced with the difficulty of reducing emissions while also cutting gasoline consumption, the automakers persuaded the Environmental Protection Agency to extend the deadline to 1978. Now they want still more time and less stringent standards. The Senate is willing to give them until...
...committee selected the proposals submitted by Boston Urban Associates--The Architects' Collaborative of Boston and Cambridge, the Cambridge Carbon Co./Benjamin Thompson Associates of Cambridge, and The Carpenter and Co./Cambridge Seven Associates...
...method does not do away with the need to measure carbon 14, a radioactive atom that accumulates in all organisms while they live and decays at a known rate once they die. But it measures it in a different way. Current dating methods determine the age of an object indirectly, by measuring its carbon-14 radioactivity. The new technique being developed by Professor Harry Gove of Rochester and his fellow researchers measures the amount of carbon 14 directly. The scientists place a sample of the object to be evaluated in Rochester's tandem Van de Graaff particle accelerator...