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...powered 150 million-gallon-a-day plant. The U.S. and Mexico may put up a billion-gallon-a-day plant on the Gulf of California in the 1980s. By that time, the cost of desalting water could be cut to 100 per 1,000 gallons. Speaking over the noisy hum of Key West's desalting plant last week, Vice President Hubert Humphrey ventured a bold prediction. With such breakthroughs, he said, desalination will eventually yield benefits "as great as those bestowed by the development of electricity...
...Paraná, third biggest river in South America after the Amazon and the Orinoco, is being harnessed by two dams costing an estimated $700 million. The first power plant to hum will be at Jupiá, where next June three generators will go into action. After that, others will be added every year until, by 1972, 14 are producing 100,000 kw. each. Thirty-four miles upstream, work has begun on the Ilha Solteira Dam, whose 20 turbines will produce 160,000 kw. apiece when they become fully operative...
...Humming. Most important, Henshel complemented the company's basic Bulova watch by introducing two new lines: the low-priced ($10.95 to $29.95) Caravelle, designed to compete with the Timex, and the top-quality Accutron ($125 and up), a battery-powered electronic watch whose tuning-fork action assures precision, makes the timepiece hum instead of tick. So fast did the new lines catch on that Bulova figures their combined dollar-sales volume during the past fiscal year exceeded overall watch sales of either of Bulova's chief U.S. competitors, Elgin and Hamilton. Not content with that, the company further...
This Midsummer Night's Dream is the work of Daniel Seltzer's Hum 105 class, and there is a temptation to assign it a grade. Let it go as a disappointment, but not a failure...
...scholar in English philology, Bond teaches Hum 122, "History of the Book," and English 296, "Description and Analytic Bibliography...