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...ERDA is still pulling itself together; even physically, it has offices all over the Washington area. But ERDA'S mission is clear: to find out which alternatives to oil are feasible and which are not. An interim report on its progress in various fields...
...long step was taken last week toward the still-distant goal of providing the U.S. with a virtually limitless source of energy. In Washington, the new Energy Research and Development Administration issued a draft "environmental statement"* detailing the environmental impact of a large, advanced fusion test reactor. ERDA's action made it clear that the U.S. is determined to harness nuclear fusion, the process that feeds the fires of the sun and gives H-bombs their awesome power. If all goes well, the $215 million test reactor, to be built on the Forrestal campus of Princeton University, will...
Once that has been done, ERDA officials hope to build more advanced experimental reactors, followed by a 500-megawatt demonstration power plant in the 1990s, and working fusion power plants that use only deuterium as a fuel by the end of the century. If that scenario can be successfully followed, the term "energy crisis" will become obsolete. There is enough deuterium in the world's oceans to fill mankind's energy needs for untold centuries to come...
...mountains and forests where German children hear the originals. During this time, Sendak and Segal winnowed their favorite stories from the original 210. "By the time I was ready to draw," says Sendak, "I felt that the stories were my own." Indeed, he even put his German shepherd Erda into Hansel and Gretel...
Though Wieland is still considered an "irreverent traitor" by oldtimers, he is venerated by all who work for him. Says Contralto Lili Chookasian, who sang Erda in Rheingold: "I would do anything for him. Why, I even took a curtain call wearing that black leather costume that opened up to display two enormous leather breasts with threeinch nipples. And I didn't even blush...