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Nelson, who was unavailable for comment yesterday, will teach Physics 126, "Introductory Physics," next spring. Recently his research has focused on the transition between the solid and liquid phases of matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Professors Named to Higher Faculty Ranks | 7/25/1980 | See Source »

...plants, owned by the South African Coal, Oil & Gas Corp. (SASOL), are part of an ambitious project that aims to make South Africa almost totally self-sufficient in gasoline before the turn of the century by turning coal into liquid fuel. While similar synthetic fuels helped run Hitler's armies during World War II, the procedure has not been widely used because, until recently, petroleum was much cheaper. The South Africans have developed the most advanced facilities in the world for making synthetic fuels. Under the Carter national energy program now being completed in Congress, the U.S. would build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oil-Tank Glow | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

...late October the University finally got its break and began shipping its barrels to a Texas site which evaporated the liquid material and stored the remaining residue. By the time Cambridge fall elections passed, even Vellucci had forgotten about the problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Want Not, Waste Not | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...needle-nosed, liquid-propelled rocket-known in the West as the CSS-X-4, for China surface-to-surface experimental No. 4-is relatively crude. But it showed that China intends to allocate scarce resources to hold its own in what it calls "a world in great turmoil." Said Vice Premier Li Xiannian: "Our tests are aimed at strengthening China's defense against the hegemonist powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: New Member | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...much of his life, he kept his liquid capital in a locked suitcase. (His real capital, of course, lay in Picasso's Picassos and a huge store of works by other artists that he accumulated over the years.) He did not lightly dispense those bank notes. He preferred to give a delivery boy an instant drawing rather than a five franc tip. Fernande Olivier, with whom Picasso had his first lasting love affair, a liaison that lasted seven years, died of pneumonia in 1958, 46 years after their breakup. She received no financial help from her old lover. Picasso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Trajectories of Genius | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

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