Word: ses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chatter and Hiss. The Government is becoming involved. The Environmental Protection Agency has just awarded a $570,000 steam-engine-development contract to a small firm in Newton, Mass., called Steam Engine Systems, or SES. Similar contracts to develop non-steam, low-pollution vapor engines using organic fluids like fluronol instead of water have gone to California's Aerojet-General Corp. and Thermo Electron of Waltham, Mass. The environmental agency expects to hold a competitive runoff by year's end to determine which of the three engines merits additional federal money...
...SES has already put together an experimental 100-h.p. steam engine with support from Mobil Oil, which is interested in the lubricating problems of steamers. SES President Richard Morse headed a 1967 federal study group, which concluded that a return to the steam engine was indeed possible. Morse says that theoretically a steamer could use any kind of fuel, "even camel dung, if there were enough camels," but he prefers kerosene. The fuel is not exploded inside the cylinder as it is in the internal-combustion engine but is burned in an external combustion chamber at atmospheric pressure...
...Tanks. Under the terms of the new contract, SES has a year to produce a design for a 100-h.p. engine that could power a five-passenger car. American Motors has agreed to do an engineering analysis and help in adapting the engine for automotive use. To ensure that the car will not resemble a tank, the entire propulsion system cannot weigh more than 1,600 lbs., v. 1,300 lbs. for a conventional medium-sized car. Yet the system must be able to thrust the car from zero to 60 m.p.h. in 13 sec., drive...
...loaded with little-known names. From the major powers, the only leaders scheduled to show were Richard Nixon and Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath. East bloc representation suffered from a domino sequence of dropouts. Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin had been known to be anxious to attend the ses sion, presumably to add new thrust to Moscow's continuing global "peace offensive." With U.S.-Soviet relations cooling perceptibly over the Middle East, Kosygin canceled his travel plans and dispatched Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko instead. Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia quickly followed suit by dispatching their foreign ministers. That...
...found in the commercials for a company called "America, Inc.," which periodically interrupt the story. (America, Inc. is advertising a pamphlet concerning "America's Greatest Challenge"). We get another look at America through the eyes of Jean Shepperd, who provides some nostalgic remarks on drive-ins, turnpikes. Howard Johnson ses, etc. The last theme, which runs throughout the program and which is dealt with both implicitly and explicitly, concerns the way in which the presence of the television camera alters reality...