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Competitors will propel themselves in hand-made rafts along a quarter-mile course stretching from the Lars Anderson Bridge to the Weeks Bridge. Bill Lee '72. organizer of the event, said last night that at least five rafts will be racing...
...System. Holmes, Watson and the adherents they accumulate on their safari, drunks, outcasts and youth, signify all that is good and innocent. Such a thesis has formed the basis for many successful farces, The Madwoman of Chaillot, for example. But this lunacy in Manhattan has no imagination to propel its whimsy, no language to give it breath. Goldman is a dealer in used ideas ("The Bible has it wrong-Earth is Eden!" cries Justin). Scott continues to act with impatient power, but his messages all seem self-addressed. Woodward's real sweetness becomes ersatz and saccharine...
Sine Qua Non. One reason for the confusion in policy is that Americans have been accustomed to act as if cheap and abundant energy were assured through eternity. Power-to heat and light buildings, propel cars and planes, keep computers and other machines purring-is the sine qua non of an industrial society. The U.S. has been consuming it far more greedily than any other nation. Americans make up 6% of the earth's population but use approximately 40% of its energy-producing fuels. According to a study by the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, the nation's energy...
...their cars, for example, Americans have increasingly demanded power-operated windows, seats and other gadgets, which require oversize engines that gulp much more gas than would be needed merely to propel the auto. There are some indications that factories may also be wasting power. Energy consumed per unit of industrial output fell steadily from 1920 through 1966, but since then it has been rising. One consequence is that the nation's known reserves of easily recoverable fuel declined in the late 1960s, at least in relation to consumption. That situation was reversed in oil last year because...
...exercise by beating the bejesus out of any blacks and Slavs foolish enough to stray onto the wrong side of the street. As young Hamburgs grew older, fatter and more sophisticated, the bonds of brotherhood held and forged a collective political power. The proto-mayor eventually used it to propel him into office...