Word: smokelessly
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...competition as well as he does. Zaire's President Mobutu reminds Mailer of "a snake around a stick." Fight Promoter Don King's intellectual pretensions are pricked by simply quoting his pronunciation of the German philosopher "Knees Itch." George Plimpton's genteel competitiveness makes him "a smokeless Vesuvius...
...coal from oil. In fact, early Bureau of Mines tests in commercial scale plants at Rifle, Colorado, showed that oil could be made from coal at no cost per barrel when produced in series with a steam-generated electric power plant, using its excess steam to produce gasoline, a smokeless solid fuel, and liquid fuels worth more than the cost of the raw coal itself...
Texas Works has only two smokestacks, and these emit almost no smoke. The two giant 200-ton furnaces are fueled by a careful mixture of natural gas and air that is almost smokeless, and 25,000-h.p. fans blow the few exhaust fumes through a cooling water spray that removes all solid particles. The ultimate discharge from the stacks is made up of relatively equal parts of warm oxygen and carbon dioxide...
...progress in curbing air pollution by modifying jet-engine combustion chambers to burn a leaner fuel on takeoff. This eliminates smoke, though not invisible gases like carbon monoxide. TWA is spending $2,000,000 to alter its engines this way; all U.S. airlines are pledged to achieve smokeless takeoffs by 1973, which may cost the lines as much as $100 million...
...needs are most conspicuous in the impoverished states, many of them new nations. Almost by definition, an underdeveloped country is an undercapitalized country. Struggling to advance from muscle power to the machine, its people anxiously eye their smokeless horizons in search of capital to build factories, hire managers and export young men to universities from Göttingen to Berkeley. They cast an envious glance at such cities as San Juan and Teheran, which have risen from squalor to considerable splendor in less than a generation. The modern influences of communications-tourists, transistor radios, Hollywood films, advertisements-have carried...