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Edelman, an accomplished violinist who loves poetry "because it is beautiful and useless," was awakened by his wife Maxine after she heard the news on a radio broadcast. "It was 8 o'clock in the morning, a time when I am usually asleep and in some kind of metaphysical state," he said later in the day. "At first I was silent, then glad-delighted, in fact." Porter, who lives on a farm near Oxford, was skeptical when informed that he had won. "Reporters told me that last year and I hadn't," he explained...
...fuel than it consumes. The Soviets now have one small experimental breeder at Obninsk and another, much larger, 600,000-kw. plant at Beloyarskoye; none of their six nuclear power plants now in full operation has had a serious accident. Proud of their own safety procedures, they dismissed as useless the American practice of enclosing nuclear reactors in large protective shells; "Purely psychological," said Igor Morokhov, No. 2 man of the Soviet atomic energy committee...
...higher or lower than that of any other department. I suggest that authors of future articles on the Department use more reliable sources than jocks in Eliot and Winthrop House. So much has already been said to demonstrate the academic worth of the Department that I feel it useless to elaborate on this point further...
...SEEMS THAT the PALC organizers were wrong about Harvard. Commitment to principle by a University is dismissed in the Farber report as useless symbolic action; students are intimidated by Farber's description of a world in which Gulf or some other foreign oil company will always be at Cabinda and, if the "low-level stalemate" persists, white Portugal will always rule black Angola...
Having tipped G.M.'s hand, Cole proceeded to set a high ante for the other players. Since lead and two other elements used in most U.S. gasoline render platinum useless as an exhaust purifier, Cole said that they will have to be drastically reduced in fuel used by cars built after 1974. That, he warned, will have a "large impact" on the petroleum industry. As for the Government, said Cole, it may well have to compromise on its requirement that converters last 50,000 miles without maintenance. The farthest that G.M.'s prototypes have gone without trouble...