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...between the salt and the water. A great deal of energy is necessary to break the bond. Dr. W. S. Gillam, research chief of the U.S. Office of Saline Water, recently estimated that the lowest possible cost of doing the job will never drop below 25? per 1,000 gal. No tricky process of freezing or distilling can reduce this figure. At present, none comes near...
Farmers who depend on irrigation measure their water by the acre-foot (325,900 gal.): the amount that will cover one acre of land to a depth of 1 ft. At 25? per 1,000 gal., an acre-foot would cost more than $80-plus the cost of delivery from desalting plant to farm. Few farmers pay more than $5 per acre-foot, and most pay much less. Since practical water experts see little chance of cutting the basic $80 cost to $5, they hardly expect to see deserts made fruitful with desalted sea water...
Freshened sea water for municipal use is another matter. People in nearly rainless countries pay high prices for their drinking and washing water. Some oil refinery towns pay as much as $2 per 1,000 gal. ($650 per acre-foot) for distilled sea water, and a cut in the price would bring more desalting installations. But cities in well-watered regions are better off. New York pipes pure and plentiful water from the Catskill Mountains 70 miles away for 10? per 1,000 gal.-less than two-fifths the lowest possible cost of freshened sea water. No one in Tucson...
Gower Champion has staged and danced the show expertly, as has Will Stevens Armstrong designed and lighted it. There are some nice Bob Merrill songs; Miss Alberghetti has an engaging voice; Jerry Orbach is a deft puppetmaster; as Marco and his gal, James Mitchell and Kaye Ballard have amusing scenes, particularly one where she is locked in a box through which he plunges swords. But the evening's peak comes with a whirling and jubilant "Grand Impérial Cirque de Paris" dance number, paced by the memorable little man of La Plume de Ma Tante, Pierre Olaf. Fetchingly...
Islands of the Sea (Buena Vista), the most recent of Walt Disney's ain't-nature-grand operas, is a scrappy but fascinating "featurette" (28 minutes) that observes in full color the recondite fauna of several seldom-visited islands-the Galápagos, the Falklands and Guadalupe. Best shots: a hideous six-foot iguana leaps into the sea and instantly seems transmogrified into a silly wriggling pollywog in a milk bottle; an elephant seal, a 20-ft. blob of blubber, lies snoring into its floppy, built-in nosebag, looking from the neck up like none other than...