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...editor, Morris acts more as a filter than an originator of ideas, but his greatest strength is in understanding, in Halberstam's words, "writers' prerogatives, what they feel, what they are, what is important to them." Often what is most important to them is to be given the freedom to write in the length and style they want to. Last week, Morris broached a story idea to his old Texas classmate, Bill Moyers, who had just been dropped as publisher of Long Island's Newsday. "Take a month, rent a car, see the country...
...from unused reserves of foundations and pension funds. The Nixon Administration, the Federal Reserve, and the House Republicans will try to defeat it. Reserve Board Chairman Arthur R. Burns explained that such a move "would release serious inflationary pressures." So the Nixon Administration will submit a plan which would filter 250 million dollars worth of subsidies through savings and loan associations. There will be no limit on interest or family income in the Nixon plan...
...Sandia scientists say, the ceramic will be useful in computers. Because its crystal orientation is determined by the last applied voltage, it is ideal for memory storage; its light-transmitting qualities can be used for computer read-outs and displays. Placed in front of a laser, the ceramic filter can block off the laser beam or let it through, depending on the amount of voltage applied. It can control the laser beam, much as a telegrapher's key modulates a radio wave, thus transmitting information...
...this situation, Rotterdam has completed the first phase of the world's most sophisticated, fully automated, air-pollution-warning system, which will soon be nationwide. It consists of 31 electric "sniffers," which mon itor sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere. Mounted on poles around 21 major plants, the sniffers filter SO, traces, translate hourly readings into" electric current and transmit the data to a central Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken computer located in the nearby town of Schiedam. If the SO., level rises above .5 parts per million, the computer sounds an alarm and an electronic map pinpoints the offending plant...
High Fever. The pollution-control industry is smaller than the big-dollar amounts might indicate. About 1,000 companies claim to be in the act, but only 200 to 300 have any real stake. Among them are Betz Laboratories, Re-search-Cottrell, American Air Filter, Sy-bron and Zurn Industries. Most anti-pollution equipment is neither new nor exotic. In air pollution, it consists largely of particle collectors for smoke stacks, fabric filters and electrostatic precipitators. Only 10% of the money spent on water and waste treatment goes into hardware; the rest is accounted for by labor, engineering and materials...