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...short, the new President must make the long overdue adjustment to a world of thermo-nuclear weapons and emerging nations, and must apply American understanding and initiative to the problems of this different world...
...Theodore Cooper director of the Institute, reported at a Washington press conference that on February 14, a research team from Harvard Medical School and the Thermo-Elecron Corp. of Waltham, implanted a heart assist system with a nuclear engine in a calf...
...awarded a $570,000 steam-engine-development contract to a small firm in Newton, Mass., called Steam Engine Systems, or SES. Similar contracts to develop non-steam, low-pollution vapor engines using organic fluids like fluronol instead of water have gone to California's Aerojet-General Corp. and Thermo Electron of Waltham, Mass. The environmental agency expects to hold a competitive runoff by year's end to determine which of the three engines merits additional federal money...
...plasma physics, after a significant 1968 Soviet breakthrough in the containment of thermo nuclear power, U.S. scientists ran confirming experiments that suggested that "this almost limitless, pollutionless source of energy may be nearer than was once expected. But the U.S. effort is having funded at a level, cut back again this year, that could put off this development as much as 25 to 50 years." In the life sciences, research funds are still lagging some 20%, or at least $250 million per year, behind research capacity...
...steam-powered bus and police car. Lear also plans to enter a steamer in the Indianapolis 500, perhaps next year, to help get his message across to Detroit. In fact, there are signs that Detroit has got the message already. Ford has signed an agreement with Massachusetts' Thermo Electron Corp. for joint development of a small steam engine, and General Motors has contracted with Oakland's Besler Developments, Inc. to install a steam motor in a Chevrolet for testing...