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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last Wednesday, walls began to shake and buckle in Muradiye, a hardscrabble, mud-and-stone mountain town near the Turko-Iranian border. Soon houses were crumbling across an area of 300 sq. mi. The worst Turkish earthquake in nearly 40 years, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale,* had convulsed the eastern part of the country, with Muradiye at its epicenter. At week's end it was estimated that 5,000 people had died in the quake and its aftershocks; countless thousands of others were suffering from hunger and exposure...
Solar power has many attractions. It produces neither pollution nor radioactivity. It is inexhaustible; the sun is expected to burn with undiminished brightness for billions of years. Finally, it is abundant, though diffuse and difficult to collect. The amount of solar energy reaching the earth averages 126 watts per sq. ft. Even in a northerly location such as Madison, Wis., the amount of solar energy striking an acre of ground is equivalent to 10 bbl. of oil per day, while that hitting a roof is in most cases more than enough to meet the energy needs of the building below...
...Ludwig's most intriguing ventures is little known outside his 34th-floor offices in Manhattan's Burlington House. In 1967 Ludwig paid $3 million to a group of Brazilian families for a 4,650-sq.-mi. swatch of rain forest in Brazil's remote Amazon region. He then set in motion a bold plan for developing the tract, which is almost the size of the state of Connecticut, to help meet the future world shortages of food, lumber, and wood pulp for papermaking that he expects. Although the crisis has not appeared?at least not yet?Ludwig has quietly...
...that extra money went into elaborate new sets and gadgetry. CBS headquarters was sheathed in enough slanted Plexiglas to suggest a futuristic Dairy Queen. ABC's election-center reporters sat at semicircular desks that resembled, and were described by their occupants as, bumper cars. NBC's 336-sq.-ft. map of the country looked like a visual aid for Hollywood Squares: each state took on a hue (red for Carter, blue for Ford) as its winner was projected. All three networks abandoned the traditional mechanical tote boards for computerized video display screens. They were not that much...
...Proposition Review is still showing on Thursday at 8:30 p.m., and Friday and Saturday at 8 and 10 p.m. at the Proposition Theater, 241 Hampshire St., Inman Sq., Cambridge...