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Then Khrushchev let them have it. Kuibyshev was a wonderful achievement, he repeated, but was it the best way to create electricity? A hydropower station took from seven to ten years to build. But thermal power stations, using natural gas or low-grade coal, could be run up in three years or less. And the "point at issue," cried Nikita, is to win time "in the competition with capitalism, to catch up with and outstrip the United States in the per capita output of the population...
...used as a source of energy, in the manner of volcanic steam power plants in central Italy. Last week Pacific Gas & Electric Co. of California announced that it has struck a deal to make electricity out of underground steam produced jointly by Magma Power Co. of Los Angeles and Thermal Power Co. of San Francisco...
Atop their near-volcano, Magma Power and Thermal Power drilled four steam wells, using ordinary oil-well drilling equipment. The wells are 500 to 700 ft. deep, and the temperature -of the rock at bottom is about 600° F. When the wells are capped, steam pressure measures 300 to 400 Ibs. per sq. in., but when the steam flows, pressure drops to 100 Ibs. and temperature...
Died. John William van Druten, 56, prolific (27 plays) writer for stage and screen, top-drawer director (The King and I), novelist (The Vicarious Years); of a heart attack; in Thermal, Calif. A reserved bachelor, London-born Van Druten turned from law teaching to drama in 1926, scored flashy success with sophisticated, bittersweet comedies (The Voice of the Turtle, There's Always Juliet...
This week with the five-month summer water-cure season gushing at full tap, an estimated 50,000 French spaddicts are off to nearly 100 government-licensed "thermal establishments." Somewhere in France is a spa for every hydro-hypochondriac. Each spa is classified by the mineral content of its water and the diseases it is supposed to treat. Rheumatism is soothed at 55 stations; the spa at Encausse specializes in malaria; 27 other places cater to specific circulatory diseases such as heart trouble (Bourbon-Lancy), high blood pressure (Evian) and inflamed veins (Luxeuil...