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When the white column crosses the slope its point swings like a pendulum, as though it is gathering momentum for a charge down the mountain. But then something seems to anger it and it will balks or pouts and leaps over the lift tower, quivering and shaking violently in paroxysms. As if two wills were fighting for it--one impelling it down the mountain trail, to swirl light-fingered down the moguls, and the other pulling back in horror from the touch of the slick ice or hard packed snow or rocks beneath the powdery surface fluff...
...fuel. Exactly how the situation stands is hard to determine, because the only figures available come from the industry-and thus might be, critics charge, grossly understated. But with the single exception of 1970, when much gas was reported together with oil on Alaska's North Slope, discoveries for several years appear to have run alarmingly far below consumption. Proved reserves have dwindled-according to the industry. The shortage has also affected air quality. Natural gas is the most environmentally acceptable of fuels, since it releases few pollutants when burned. Many fume-filled East Coast cities would be glad...
...begin drilling for what many geologists believe is the world's largest unexplored oil deposit. The most promising recent strikes have been under the turbulent waters of the North Sea, which has proven deposits of more than 12 billion bbl., v. 10 billion on Alaska's North Slope. Production has barely begun, but the fields are scheduled to be pumping 2.5 million bbl. a day by 1980. Britain, which controls the richest fields, expects to become a net exporter of oil by the mid-1980s (although the country is starting a drastic austerity program now). Norway...
Died. Wolf V. Vishniac, 51, a microbiologist who designed one of the devices to be used to search for life on Mars during the U.S.'s first soft-landing attempt in 1975-76; after falling down an ice slope during an expedition to Antarctica. Vishniac's "Wolf trap" is the size of a cigar box and contains adhesive-coated strings that will be dragged through Mars' arid soil, then reeled into the container, where any life forms stuck to the strings will be detected. -Died. Marian Young Taylor, 65, known to radio listeners for 32 years...
Thornton Bradshaw, president of Atlantic Richfield, further contends that the industry was caught short by a whole congeries of events beyond its control. As recently as 1968-a "year of euphoria" for the industry, in his words-the companies thought that their supply problems were over: the Alaska North Slope oilfield had just been proved and was expected to be powering cars by 1972, drilling had started on a large offshore field in California's Santa Barbara Channel, and coal production was still going strong and was expected to take some of the slack from oil. Within months...