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Sasol II is being put up 100 miles from the present plant. The $2.9 billion Sasol II will be environmentally cleaner; precipitators above the boilers will extract chemical fumes and reduce air pollution, and water will be recycled rather than dumped in rivers. In addition, productivity will be higher: 1.78 bbl. of synthetic oil from each ton of coal, vs. 1.26 bbl. at present. As soon as that plant is finished next February, construction will start near by on Sasol III. Once the three plants are in operation, they will save an estimated $400 million a year in foreign exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Synfuel Success | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...instance, written a column of too familiar TV listings ("5:00, Ch. 3: Enough is Enough/Audrey falls for a swinging swimming pool cleaner and the twins disapprove"), rationalized rape ("Men who dress provocatively are asking for it"), and once dared to dismiss Barry Manilow as "the Mitch Miller of the '70s." Recalls White: "It's been a couple of years since so many nasty letters ended up on my desk. The last time it happened was shortly after I suggested that Queen Elizabeth be named the Best Dressed Woman of 1952. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Notes from the Academy | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...small enterprises after World War II, including a restaurant, a flying school, a commercial air charter service and a distributorship for Nutrilite. The two left to start Amway, taking with them a number of discontented Nutrilite distributors. The first product that Amway marketed was an all-purpose liquid cleaner called Frisk, and today soaps and detergents remain the core of the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Amway's Way | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...Pope John Paul II it was a curiously connubial week. First, in the Vatican's stately Pauline Chapel, the Pope kept a promise to a Rome street-cleaner's daughter who had boldly asked him to officiate at her wedding. The glowing bride, Vittoria lanni, 22, received a papal buss and so did the nervous groom, Mario Maltese, 24. "May you have long life and may you see the sons of your sons," prayed the Pope in nuptial blessing. Later in the week, the Pope tuned in the state-owned second radio network to catch the premiere broadcast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 12, 1979 | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

EVERY ART has its social commentator. Comic strips have Doonesbury and music has Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson. Listening to a Scott-Heron/Jackson album is an educational experience unrivalled by the "education" obtained from such sources as the makers of Dow Bathroom Cleaner, your local Emmy-award-winning eyewitness news team or your favorite daytime game show. It's an experience that gives insight into answers to questions the game show wouldn't ask or events the news team wouldn't cover. It's really a musical eyeglass cleaner...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: A Verbal Coltrane | 1/5/1979 | See Source »

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