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...untrue that desalted water at a cost of under 35? per 1,000 gal. is "far off." Westinghouse can build a plant producing 150,000,000 gal. of fresh water daily for less than 35? per 1,000 gallons. All we need is a customer. It is also untrue that disposing of "mountains of coarse, unusable salt" poses a problem. The residue of a large desalting plant is only 7% salt and can be discharged into the ocean...
...casting about for outside talent. It hired Music Critic John Haskins, who wrote for the Washington Evening Star, to bolster its new, well-received arts and entertainment section. "Until recently," says a staffer, "they just wouldn't have done that. They'd have simply grabbed some gal on the staff, on the theory that girls probably know about music, and moved her in there." The remark was a bit of city room hyperbole; in fairness to the Star, the last music critic...
...piloting his P-51 Mustang from Clearwater, Fla., to Reno, Nev., in 6 hrs. 28 min. 37.9 sec. for an average of 373 m.p.h. Weiner covered the seams of his plane with tape to cut down wind resistance, stopped just once for fuel, landed at Reno with only 11 gal. of gas to spare...
...watt bulb. Recovered and recirculated by fans, this heat from the lighting and the building's occupants has proved more than enough to keep the building warm even when the outside thermometer reads 18°. The excess is transferred to heating coils in two 12,000-gal. water tanks. When the lights go out and the human dynamos go home at night and on weekends, the hot water from the tanks is circulated throughout the building to keep it warm. As a precautionary measure, the engineers also installed emergency electrical heaters, but Kimberly has almost never...
...potential in a rural community, the Riverhead plant and other small ones offer just a drop in the bucket to thirsty cities such as New York, which daily consumes 1.25 billion gal. The governments of the U.S. and Israel are now jointly studying the possibility of building nuclear desalinization plants with daily outputs of 100 million gal. For the Los Angeles region, Bechtel Corp. has recently completed the first stage of a study calling for a two-reactor nuclear plant that theoretically, by 1972, could turn out 150 million gal. per day, at a cost...