Word: gargantuanism
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...about 400 million gallons of recirculating cooling water per day, requires 1,300 megawatts of continuous electrical power (enough to meet the needs of a city of about 600,000) and costs about $2 billion to build. Only the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, France and China have such gargantuan processing plants; they thus have been able to exercise tight control over the distribution of enriched U-235. But a much smaller and more economical gas centrifuge method is being developed for enriching U-235. Once it is perfected, many more nations will be able to produce their own supplies...
Died. "Mama" Cass Elliot, 33, gargantuan, silvery-voiced pop-rock singer; after choking on a ham sandwich; in London. Born Ellen Naomi Cohen in Baltimore, Mama Cass sang with a few unmemorable Greenwich Village folk groups in the early 1960s before contributing her gutsy contralto to the Mamas and the Papas, the quartet that created such euphonious superhits as Monday, Monday and California Dreamin'. When the group broke up in 1968, the Earth Motherly (5 ft. 5 in., as much as 250 Ibs.) Elliot embarked on a successful solo career. More than 300 people, including such luminaries as Carol...
...year, Levy calculates, consuming nations will pay $100 billion to import oil, v. $20 billion in 1972. For poor countries, the oil bill will more than offset all the foreign aid they get. Even industrialized nations, says Levy, must either cut oil imports enough to cause recession or run gargantuan trade deficits financed by borrowings that eventually will pile up an insupportable debt. Though Levy does not use the words global depression, he contends that the world economy "cannot survive in a healthy or remotely healthy condition if cartel pricing and actual or threatened supply restraints of oil continue...
Stephen Stamas, 43, has proved to be something of a heretic since becoming public-affairs chief for the gargantuan Exxon Corp. in June 1973. Youngest of the company's 13 vice presidents, Stamas muses that oil companies might be able to manage quite well without an oil depletion allowance today had prices been hiked gradually in the past. A Rhodes scholar and Harvard Ph.D. in economics, Stamas joined Exxon in 1960 as a financial analyst, rose to head its international petroleum planning division before a six-month tour of duty in the U.S. Commerce Department. Before joining the public...
...skill-"an art," she unkindly notes, "highly wasteful of its materials." Napoleon, whose mind or spirit at this point is soaring like the last movement of "The Eroica, "appears to get the message: musical forms may reveal divine essences, while his own kinetic life has been shaped by a gargantuan but finite will, whose only form was eventually a form of selfdelusion. Napoleon Symphony is, in some sense, an entertaining and elaborate joke. What the punch line comes down to is the simple fact that even Napoleon thought he was Napoleon...