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Large-scale commercial installations are a long way off because they would require vast "farms" of expensive solar collectors. But solar energy, once explored only by smaller companies, now is attracting such big firms as PPG Industries, Lockheed, Westinghouse and Revere Copper & Brass. This week General Electric will show off its solar-heated Valley Forge, Pa., plant to the public; the system uses 5,000 sq. ft. of roof-borne solar collectors and is expected to save 12,000 gal. of fuel oil in an average heating season...
...have it on good authority that twice--once during a strike of copper mine technicians shortly after Allende's election and again during the truckers' strike just before the military coup that murdered him and brought down his government--Chile was so flooded with American dollars that the value of the dollar on the black market fell by about half...
...mining plans. Everyone, including TIME (July 29), accepted Hughes' account, and the press ran glowing stories about the ship's capabilities. "If all sails smoothly," went one typical newspaper account, "the mystery ship may be at work next year, scooping such metals as titanium, manganese, uranium, copper and nickel up out of the depths to add to the fortune of the world's wealthiest recluse...
...preparation and excited anticipation on behalf of everyone who'd seen their notices pasted up all over the Fogg, opened an exhibit of Eucharistic Vessels of the Middle Ages. If you're a middle ages freak, the show is fantastic. The vessels--chalices, monstrances, patens--are made of silver, copper gilt, Ivory and enamel, and are sumptuous and beautiful. The purpose of the show is to explain the relation of these objects to theology and liturgy in the middle ages. If you're at all interested in that, it's great--go see it. Through April...
...awake in a cold sweat as the icy-blue figure of Bill Steele flips the puck past Murray 31 seconds into overtime while a small band of brown-and-yellow-overalled gnomes, with funny caps, play The Copper Country national anthem...