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...Odessa project will start next fall. Every day, 250 tons of garbage, 20 cu. yds. of sludge, and up to 500,000 gal. of sewage water will be sent to a 640-acre plot that one rancher has donated to the experiment. Other landowners are anxious to follow suit. Indeed, says Jack Dillard, director of Odessa's utilities department, "we may have some fights over people wanting to have city garbage dumped on their land-a new kind of range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Garbage God | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

...most of the comforts of a three-bedroom house: private sleeping compartments for its three passengers, a dining table, a shower, a lavatory larger than any commercial airliner's and an 18-in. porthole to provide a view of the earth. To sustain its crews, it carries 720 gal. of drinking water, more than 2,000 Ibs. of food and enough scientific and medical gear for months of experimentation. Both inside and out, it would make a splendid set for a movie like 2001: A Space Odyssey or the TV series Star Trek. But it is a real spacecraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Good Life in Space | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...sixties the music was so separate from its original low-life milieu that my parents could take me, as a very small boy, to Preservation Hall. Sweet Emma the Bell Gal and Her Dixieland Boys were playing that night. I was nine years old, so it was already late at night when we sat down on folding chairs in the front row. I noticed a small sign on a pegboard wall that said, "Traditional requests $1. Others $2. The Saints $5." My father explained the sign to me, and while the band played a lot of bouncy songs I didn...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Jazz Preserved | 3/15/1973 | See Source »

...gal, what you gonna...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: Tryin' To Make It Real | 3/8/1973 | See Source »

...sprawling installation. Only a "few" of the bombs landed on a fuel supply area, the military said; the rest fell harmlessly in open country. Those few, however, were enough to injure ten Americans and one Vietnamese. The bombs also ignited three fuel tanks, burning up 720,000 gal. of aviation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Just a Mistake | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

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