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...their size and weight. Enough of them to power an electric car would weigh as much as an entire conventional automobile. Furthermore, there is little room for improvement; lead-acid batteries have already been developed close to their theoretical peak. Other batteries using different materials-nickel and cadmium, zinc and silver, or sodium and sulfur-have greater energy density, but they have not yet proved practical either, largely because of high costs...
Looking for alternatives. Chemist Philip C. Symons, director of the Udylite Co.'s energy development lab, turned to a combination of inexpensive and readily available substances: zinc and chlorine. Other experimenters-notably General Motors' Allison Division -have also built batteries using chlorine and are confident that such batteries, when refined, will have an energy density high enough to make them practical for powering electric automobiles. But chlorine has two serious drawbacks. It is a poisonous gas that could endanger the occupants of a car if it seeped into the passenger compartment and under ordinary conditions it occupies...
...ultimate distinction of a beaten football team by losing to Brown a week later, but the 0-7 Bruins couldn't quite hold on to a rally, and dropped their eighth in a row, 24-19. One of the lesser quarterbacks in a league full of mediocre quarterbacks, Bob Zinc, riddled the Crimson secondary and erased Harvard's 17-3 lead, but the Crimson, behind Crone, produced a late touchdown and sent the Brown fans home to mourn another endless fall...
What is better than a good businessman? Answer: a good lucky businessman. Charles Bluhdorn, the highly creative and sometimes abrasive chairman of Gulf & Western Industries, is just that. In the 1960s he built G. & W. into a prosperous conglomerate, piling one acquisition atop another, from auto parts to zinc mining. But along with many other conglomerates, G. & W. foundered when tight money and recession struck a couple of years ago. Now Bluhdorn is making a comeback, lifted by a business where luck is a necessity: motion pictures. In his palmier days, Bluhdorn bought Paramount Pictures, lately the producer...
Last week state and city officials took American Smelting to court, charging that from 1969 to 1971 the plant emitted enormous amounts of lead, cadmium, arsenic and zinc into the air. The suit asks a fine...