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...expected to be personally still better off in the future. Yet these same Americans expressed a sharp decline in confidence in their country's future. Political studies show that in every election since 1958, the "most politically estranged" voters have been those over 50; the world simply became loo much for them. Surprisingly, in the most recent presidential election the next most alienated group was the one from 21 to 24 years...
Near Sandusky, Ohio, NASA'S Lewis Research Center is putting finishing touches on a lOO-ft.-tall experimental steel windmill with two 62-ft.-long aluminum blades. When these blades begin turning in the summer breezes off Lake Erie later this month, they should produce as much as 100 kilowatts of electricity, enough to meet the needs of 30 one-family homes. Other projects range from a large eggbeater-shaped rotor being tested by New Mexico's Sandia Laboratories to small sail-driven devices created by such ecology-minded outfits as R. Buckminster Fuller's Windworks...
...first woman to conduct a Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan musical and probably the first female undergraduate to conduct any Harvard production. It is not a distinction that particularly impresses her and only occasionally has it been called to her attention by anyone else. When she asked Michael Loo to be her concertmaster, a service he has performed for past Gilbert and Sullivan shows, he replied, "What happened? Did no one else want to be conductor?" but comments like his have been rare. Krag is not an Antonia Brico, either in her ambitions or disappointments. Talent and effort have paid...
Charles de Gaulle used to enjoy singing La Marseillaise, but French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing apparently does not even like to hear it. "The President of the Republic thinks Ihe familiar version is too rapid, loo chromatic. He just does not like it," says Roger Boutry, professor of harmony at the Paris Music Conservatory. Boutry should know, since he was commissioned by le Président to compose a new version of the national anthem last June. "I have done a new arrangement," explains Boutry, "taken the drums out, changed the rhythm and the harmony, altered...
...Loo Sanction, Trevanian...