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WINDS AND TIDES. Though the earth's winds are too irregular to serve as a major power source, Marine Engineer William E. Heronemus figures that they could still be helpful. He suggests building high windmills out in the ocean on floating platforms, where they could generate the electrical power necessary to distill and break down sea water to obtain hydrogen for fuel cells. The old idea of tidal power is also getting new attention. By harnessing the daily rise and fall of the tides (average: 27 ft.) in the Rance River estuary in Brittany, the French are producing some...
...working life of an agent depends largely on where he is stationed. If he is lucky enough to be assigned to a big-city office, his hours are apt to be as regular as a stockbroker's. But assignment to a small city can mean excessive travel, irregular hours and unplanned schedule changes. The ideal assignment is in a middle-sized city like Madison, Wis., or Boulder, Colo., where as agents say, "You can pretty much be your own boss...
Applications for aid must be submitted, says the salmon-colored form, "on or before Feb. 6." But offers of teaching appointments straggle out from the various departments at irregular intervals all Spring term...
...story as "a pack of bandits." The thugs have since been captured, and last week police also nailed the leader of the gang, a notorious hoodlum named Michio Sasaki, on charges of engaging in another current underworld practice: shaking down corporations. Sasaki, police contend, used his knowledge of an irregular loan to blackmail one of Tokyo's top banks for $16,000. According to the cops, Sasaki's shakedown of another corporation netted him nearly...
...also retains the faith that principles can be turned into models and that models can be explained in words. "The last Puritan," Kenner calls him. Fuller sees reality not as permanence but as process. "I seem to be a verb," he says of himself. A highly active and irregular one, and Kenner conjugates it with great understanding, grace and affection. -R.Z. Sheppard