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...frogmen who will live for months at a time in submerged bunkhouses. The protein-rich underseas crop will probably be ground up to produce a dull-tasting cereal that eventually, however, could be regenerated chemically to taste like anything from steak to bourbon. This will provide at least a partial answer to the doomsayers who worry about the prospect of starvation for a burgeoning world population. Actually, the problem could be manageable before any frogman wets a foot; Oxford Agronomist Colin Clark calculates that if all the presently arable land were farmed as the Dutch do it, it could support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE FUTURISTS: Looking Toward A.D. 2000 | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

M.I.T.'s president and chairman of the Corporation left a variety of other points obscured. For example, they constantly referred to a large number of laboratories that would be damaged by the highway, but did not consistently indicate how many (5) would actually be destroyed. As a partial result, the Boston Globe reported the next morning that nine (or ten, depending on how you count) laboratories would be "up-rooted." The M.I.T. officials also constantly emphasized the possible disruption to experiments from vibrations, and yet their discussion was almost totally couched in generalities. One is left to wonder how serious...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: M.I.T. Versus the Inner Belt | 2/24/1966 | See Source »

...were hoping to break into the movies with a bit part in Columbia Pictures' Ell Kotch, originally scheduled for partial filming at Harvard, forget...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard is Cut from Eli Kotch | 2/10/1966 | See Source »

...catch was that to the Lebanese, business means bartering, and bartering is both an art and an adventure. So MEA's chairman, Sheik Najib Alamuddin, proposed to the British that his company would make partial payment for the jets in the form of surplus Lebanese apples; this would work out very nicely for the sheik, who is himself one of Lebanon's biggest apple-growers. The British, however, did not like them apples. Another idea-forming a British Aircraft Corp. subsidiary that would lease the planes to the Lebanese-was dashed last week when the British government revoked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: The Art & Adventure of Bartering | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

...program will locate vacancies in private schools and bring qualified Negro students to the schools' attention. It will include an "Educational Action Center" which will advise and screen applicants, and publicize the vacancies. BASPP hopes to place 75 to 100 students in private schools, on a partial or full scholarship basis by next fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Plan to Place Negro Students In Greater Boston Private Schools | 1/17/1966 | See Source »

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