Word: clogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Betty has displeased at least one listener with her broadcasts. Earl Stevens, editor of the National CB Truckers' News (circ. 250,000), last week accused First Mama of rustling votes over the Citizen's Band airwaves-a violation, says he, of federal regulations. Fearful that campaigners might clog the air, Stevens has called on the FCC to prevent politicians from rendering "our CB radios useless in election years." Ten-four, First Mama...
...death, unless our noses are rubbed in it, but how casually we observed his life." That is easy to say but hard to mean, and Hoagland clearly means it. He has traveled and thought hard, usually in solitude, without allowing the veneer of his own sophistication to clog his responses. He is unembarrassed by awe and un abashedly thrilled by the panorama of mortal creations that the world provides...
...Olympics, the city of Grenoble (pop.: 380,000) has been trying to improve itself even more, becoming France's laboratory for urban planning. Now, in an ambitious move that is being watched by urban planners everywhere, the city is moving to reduce the number of private automobiles that clog and pollute its streets...
...frustrated Tap Dancer Barbara Walters had been waiting for. She got it finally last week when she filled in for Johnny Carson on the Tonight show. Guest Gene Kelly graciously appraised Barbara's potential. After a few turns round the set, Barbara asked Gene to check her waltz clog (a tap step) because "I can't click my heels together properly." In no time Gene was showing Barbara how to tap and it was clear that Barbara's latent ambitions were aflame. "It hasn't been the field I've made it in," she acknowledged...
...costs about $125,000. If a driller hits, he still can be disappointed by the mixture of steam and briny water that hisses to the surface. Sometimes it is too cool to use efficiently; often it is laden with minerals and impurities that "crud up" turbine blades and even clog the bored hole itself. The steam can, in fact, be cleaned, but unfortunately the process is expensive. Its heat can be transferred to a non-corrosive gas and fed to the turbine, but that is inefficient...