Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These were qualities that little Gladys Smith of Toronto apparently had at age five, when, after her father died, she started to act in stock companies. Under the guidance of her mother, the ultimate stage mom, she trouped her way out of the provinces to New York City. There Theatrical...
Like leftover props from a sci-fi thriller movie, strange apparitions are appearing across the U.S. In the deserts of New Mexico, huge banks of motorized mirrors track the sun and focus its rays into a cyclops-like eye of red heat. A mountain in North Carolina has been crowned...
Coal Conversion. The U.S. has just over a quarter of the world's known reserves of coal. But coal is expensive to transport and heavily polluting. One solution: convert it into gas or oil. Neither idea is new; London's street lights last century were powered by coal...
Current power is being studied under a DOE grant by Aerovironment Inc., a small firm in Pasadena, Calif. It is considering sinking large electricity-producing turbines off the Florida coast, with rotating "windmills" turned by the Gulf Stream and connected to generators that pump power to shore by submarine cable...
Much of the recent buying comes from beyond Europe. Speculators in Turkey have made fabulous profits by hoarding gold as a hedge against their own sharply declining currency. The Arabs remain major buyers, and they like to get gold in 400-ounce bars (now worth about $110,000 each). Germany...