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...been giving India's masses hope of being better fed. Also, the high cost of importing fuel will force the government to cut oil imports to the bone and allocate the tight supplies. The steel, fertilizer and railroad industries will receive priority, but even the railroads are building steam locomotives rather than more efficient, but oil-burning, diesels. Overall, says Sarwar Lateef, a respected economics journalist, the impact of the oil crisis makes India's five-year plan an exercise in "cuckoo-land optimism...
...through revolving doors.or reading a medical thermometer. But Rube Goldberg's zany imagination and zippy drawing style really blossomed with the Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts-those incredible falling domino devices that poke fun at the complex concatenations of modern technology by deploying sleepy dogs, melting ice, steam whistles and levers to light a cigar in an open car going 50 m.p.h. or pluck the cotton wadding out of a pill bottle...
...minor, some potentially sizable-to save more fuel. Some plants began investing even before the fuel shortage. Four years ago an RCA Corp. cabinetmaking plant in Monticello, Ind., converted its heating systems to burn 30 to 40 tons of its own waste wood daily. Dow Chemical Corp. has cut steam consumption in half at one of its plants, partly by installing a more efficient heat-transfer process. The investment of $44,000 was offset within a year through lower energy bills. Alcoa has developed a new smelting process that is expected to cut by 30% the amount of electricity needed...
Died. Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, 81, a British government scientist who developed the first practical radar system; after a long illness; in Inverness, Scotland. A member of the same family to which the inventor of the steam engine, James Watt, belonged, Watson-Watt worked on what was then called "radio location," a process of bouncing radio waves off distant objects. Tested by tracking the plane that carried Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to Munich and back in 1938, Watson-Watt's aircraft-spotting radar later helped his country repel German attacks during the Battle of Britain...
...University has already cut back on its steam consumption for heating by 30 per cent this month. Steiner estimated that 20 per cent of the savings could be attributed to the consolidation efforts and increased efficiency. The rest is due to an unusually high number of warm days which allowed heat to be turned off in many buildings, he said...