Word: leys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play, Richard Sheridan's "School for Scandal," will be given with its original prologue and epilogue, production manager Peter B. Rooke-Ley '56 announced yesterday...
...move to the Playhouse, originally intended as a home for undergraduate dramatic productions was promoted "because of its capacity of 370 and excellent facilities," Rooke-Ley said...
Volcanic Heat. A more colorful project is getting power out of "tamed volcanoes." Ley tells how the Italians have used volcanic steam in Tuscany for more than a century. New Zealand has recently drilled for steam and has already found enough of it to supply power for a city of 200,000 people. In many parts of the world are places where the earth's crust grows hot a few hundred feet below the surface. It would not take much brains or money, Ley thinks, to harness this energy...
Second Nile. Ley does not bother with dams across ordinary rivers; he picks the Congo, .which drains much of Africa's rain forest through a steep-sided valley near its mouth. A dam at this point, says Ley, would form a lake big enough to cover California, Nevada and Oregon. The water would flow northward to fill an even bigger lake (the Chad Sea) in the Sahara, and eventually drain into the Mediterranean. The lakes would presumably improve the climate of much of Africa, and boats would reach the continent's heart through the "second Nile...
Damned Sea. Ley also likes hydraulic engineering that works in reverse. If the Red Sea, for instance, were dammed at the Strait of Bab El Mandeb (its southern extremity) and the Suez Canal were closed, its level would fall through evaporation at a rate of more than 12 ft. a year. After the sea had sunk 50 ft., the water of the Indian Ocean, flowing into it through turbines, would generate as much electricity per day as 200,000 tons of coal. The biggest such project is damming the Mediterranean at the Strait of Gibraltar. In a century its level...