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...Oklahoma and probably New Mexico. Just last week, Tenneco struck gas in the previously discouraging Baltimore Canyon, 80 miles off the New Jersey shore. Farther in the future, Ketelsen has hopes for geopres-surized gas-squeezing out large amounts of methane that is mixed in with sea water in mammoth caverns along the coasts of Louisiana and Texas. The $3-per-bbl. tax credit, now proposed by the Administration, would bring Colorado's oil shale to the brink of profitability. In sum, says Ketelsen, "If we properly develop the energy sources we have in the Americas, we could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Energy from the Americas | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Enter Tim Clifford, the mammoth Harvard senior who threw more than 120 pitches against Columbia last Saturday and will start one end of this Saturday's doubleheader with Brown...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Nine Stops Tufts, 9-7 | 4/25/1979 | See Source »

...perhaps of the meet thus far, was Harvard's super-psyched Geoff Seelen. Seelen surprised everyone who thought he was a backstroker by ripping off a 21.37 in the trials to sneak into the top eight. The man he displaced, much to the delight of cheering Crimson partisans, was mammoth Princeton junior Alan Stein, who settled for ninth...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Records Fall as Crimson Takes Lead at Easterns | 3/2/1979 | See Source »

...mammoth undertaking. "Each show is like a period movie made in 18 days," explains John Erman, who directed three episodes. The sets are lavish and the money was intelligently spent. Interiors have accurate period furnishings and products. Such minor locations as a 1930s gas station, where young Alex is barred from the men's room, are as full of vivid details as the Dust Bowl sets in Bonnie and Clyde. At a cost of $1.8 million, ABC built the town of Henning, Tenn., where Haley's family settled at the end of Roots 1, and updated its streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Super Sequel to Haley's Comet | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...NATION'S LARGEST electric power utility and leading investor in strip-mined coal and nuclear power is encouraging its customers to switch from dependence on the mammoth power plants to an updated model of the wood-burning stove or to futuristic solar heating systems. It is helping families in one of th Unites States's poorest regions to buy alternative sources of home energy with low-interest loans payable over decades. Doesn't sound like something your local Exxon or Con Ed would do, does...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Power for the People | 2/10/1979 | See Source »

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