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...involve some kind of rafts hinged together by pistons; the rocking motion forces the pistons to pump water that turns turbines. A different U.S. plan, now being studied by Lockheed, would use a 250-ft.-diameter man-made "atoll" tethered at sea. Looking like a giant doughnut, it would float with its top just above the surface. The waves surging across the rim would flow down the center hole and turn a turbine...
...landlord for a deferral of a month's rent. With this $55 he started the Gold Bond Stamp Co. He quit his job and began selling the stamps to neighborhood grocers until 1952, then advanced to supermarkets. The seven-to eight-month "float" between the time that he sold the stamps to the grocer and the time the customers cashed them in gave Carlson the money needed to buy the premium gifts and print stamps. Long before the market in trading stamps slumped in the late 1960s, Carlson began to diversify. His first major move came in 1961, when...
...America's cultural expatriates of the 1920s. When the catalogue essay for his present show of 50 drawings and a few paintings at New York City's Marlborough Gallery compares him with Idaho-born Ezra Pound in London-"the Yankee outsider who has the energy to float a circus, and the courage to initiate its polemics"-it reflects this startling English view...
...hills of Southie. This year, though, the 15,000 participants, including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.); John McCormack, former speaker of the House; Thomas P. 'Tip" O'Neill (D-Mass.), current speaker of the House; and Rep. Joseph Moakley (D-Mass.), who are jointly sponsoring a float, will have to wait until Sunday to march. The parade, which will also include the Budweiser Clydesdales and 30 marching bands, most of them playing When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," steps off from Andrews Square...
...performances of Aldredge and Sternhagen make the price of a theater ticket seem paltry. This is the kind of acting that goes into the memory bank of treasured theatrical experiences. Director Craig Anderson never inflates the modest human scale and substance of the work. On Golden Pond makes hearts float and leaves playgoers, in the words of one of Marianne Moore's poems, "strengthened to live...