Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that it sells much of its oil abroad. It is also running low and has resorted to costly tertiary recovery methods in some of its fields. Solar energy, which Americans hope eventually will ease their energy problems, is not taken seriously by Soviet scientists, who, for the most part, seem not only highly competent but almost aggressively realistic. Explains Academician Alexander Sheindlin, director of the Soviet Union's High Temperature Institute: "The U.S.S.R. is a northern country. We cannot rely on the sun for energy...
Insignificant as the question may seem, it has puzzled entomologists for years. Are the protuberances weapons? Are they decorations for attracting the opposite sex? Indeed, do they serve any purpose at all? Timothy Palmer, a young scientist at Britain's Imperial College Field Station, outside London, decided to settle the matter once...
...gained the upper hand, his vanquished foe either left the burrow of his own accord or was actually pushed out by the winner (who invariably turned out to be the larger beetle). Thus, Palmer reports in Nature, the minotaur's horns, and perhaps similar horns in other beetles, seem to have been evolved for only one purpose: combat...
Never mind, bankable is bankable, so Ross, straining hard to seem as naive as her little dog Toto, is blown by a snowstorm to Munchkin land. This turns out to be the old New York World's Fair Pavilion at Flushing Meadow, where the Wicked Witch of the East has turned hundreds of juvenile spray-paint vandals into graffiti figures. The yellow brick road leads across the Brooklyn Bridge to the World Trade Center, where Richard Pryor reigns as the Wiz. But before Dorothy gets there, she meets a roarious but cowardly lion (Ted Ross) and a marvelous scarecrow...
Certainly the tax and energy bills, necessary though they are, will not right the economy. They once were the keystones of the President's economic strategy, but by the time they finally survived their ordeal by Congress, they had come to seem mere Band-Aids...