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What was remarkable about the event -and what confounded the skeptics -was the fact that the electricity for the lights was generated not by a conventional or nuclear power plant, but by a shallow, briny pool of water-a solar pond. Easy to create, using existing technology, and apparently harmless to the environment, these ponds may be one of the brightest ideas yet for tapping the sun's radiation as an energy source...
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...pictures, the opening into Katama Bay was still clear in May but had been blocked by sand by November. The Star indicated that the opening had gradually silted up during the intervening months. The newspaper concluded that by July 18 the gap would have been too narrow and shallow to let in a northward current of any strength. That interpretation concurs with what Ralph Martin, racing secretary of the local yacht club for 40 years, told TIME a few weeks after the accident. He said that winter storms in 1968-69 had so narrowed the opening in the sand...
...other expert, Ed Rolle, an interpreter of photographs for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, was quoted by the Star as saying that the May picture indicated that the sandbar opening was "shallow, possibly one to four feet." But he told Kennedy's staff that he had been misquoted. Actually, he said, "there is no way to tell if the depth is one foot, four feet or some other depth." A third expert, Jerome Milgram, a professor of ocean engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was hired by Kennedy's staff to study the currents...
Certainly no city in this nation could be, or is, as morally shallow as your article portrays Los Alamos [Dec. 10]. As Governor of the great state of New Mexico, I am proud of the citizens we have, including the people who are employed at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories. Los Alamos scientists have been instrumental in the development of medical, nuclear, solar, laser and computer applications that have played a key role in our nation's technical achievements. The author's analysis of Los Alamos ignores the positive aspects of many fine individuals who make up this outstanding...