Word: problem
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Tapped Off. To help solve its water problem, the Air Force has signed up Ionics, Inc., a twelve-year-old Cambridge, Mass, company staffed largely by professorial veterans of M.I.T. and Harvard. Less than two years ago, Ionics unveiled the nation's first municipal water-desalting plant at Coalinga, Calif.; since last June, Ionics has been transforming 250,000 gallons a day of unpotable water into good water for the town of Oxnard. Calif, at a cost of 20? per thousand gallons-half the amount that most U.S. cities pay for their water. About 50 more company plants...
...weeds from choking off the water flow, the ditches had to be cleared expensively by hand labor or chemical herbicide. Then William H. L. Allsopp, a British zoologist at the government fisheries laboratory in Guiana's capital city of Georgetown, took a fresh look at the weed problem. In Britain's Nature, Allsopp unveils his novel solution: the manatee, a clumsy, somewhat seal-like aquatic mammal* that flounders in the rivers and sloughs of tropical America...
...chief risk in using manatees is that they are locally considered very good eating and so are apt to be surreptitiously turned into steaks and chops. Allsopp hopes to get strict legislation to protect both wild and tame manatees from this fate. But his chief remaining problem is how to multiply his gentle servants, who, left to their own devices, seem to be both slow and unenthusiastic in reproduction...
...Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration last week, students in Economics 169 and 287 ran into a growing problem: the absent professor. David Elliott Bell had left abruptly to grapple with the U.S. budget; the same school's Economist Edward S. Mason was off surveying the economy of Uganda. Other Harvard absentees: Government Professor Arthur A. Maass (studying the water laws of Spain), Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (lecturing on the West Coast), Government Professor Carl Friedrich (at a Texas seminar on Hegel) and Economist John T. Dunlop (mediating for the construction industry). Students who came...
...Commerce Department's forecast was also good news for the U.S. Government, which had expected exports to slip next year, thus worsen the U.S. balance-of-payments problem. Big exports of aircraft and raw cotton in 1960 were considered to be one-shot performances that would not be repeated in 1961. Last week the Department of Agriculture estimated that agriculture exports will not drop by more than 10%, which could easily be made up by increases in industrial materials. Sales of jets abroad will continue high, partly because of an order backlog of twelve to 18 months...