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...wood carver is more limited by the size of his raw material than any other sculptor. A log is a log; it cannot be melted down or extended. One can order marble to size, but no tree in China or Japan could possibly give a sculptor a large enough balk of timber to carve something as big as Michelangelo's David. Even if there was such a tree, there would be insuperable problems of technique. Wood is grainy. It favors continuous, compressed shapes with a strong axis along the grain. Anything that sticks sideways from the block...
...five and seven players, the Crimson toppled with frustrating regularity in matches three, five, six and seven. In the number-three slot, senior Donna Lilly played a fine, consistent game, but lost what she later described as a "precision-tooled match" to the superior technique of Tiger opponent Nancy Carver...
...John A. Carver Jr., a member of the Federal Power Commission, was saying: "A crisis exists right now. For the next three decades we will be in a race for our lives to meet our energy needs." Nor was the Nixon Administration unaware-or totally unaware. In a speech to oilmen in Dallas in the fall of 1970, Paul McCracken, then chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, clearly sketched the genesis of the problem and recommended a reserve capacity in the U.S., just in case anything went wrong with foreign suppliers. It seems that nearly every body knew...
...Herbert Carver, advertising manager for MP&L, said yesterday that he thinks McGrath's objections are unfounded. "of course I don't agree with him," Carver said, "because I work for Mississippi Power and Light...
...Nuclear energy is just as safe as anything else we've got," Carver said. "It's more dangerous to take an airplane ride these days than to live next to a nuclear plant. This nuclear fuel can't explode. The smartest scientists in the world couldn't make it explode...