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Surprisingly, one of the most talked-about substitutes is the old-fashioned steam engine, which enabled the Stanley Steamer to reign briefly in the early part of the century as queen of the road. The steamer was dethroned because it was costly to buy, its water boiler required constant replenishment, and it was slow to start. Today, in corporate laboratories and amateur workshops all across the country, tinkerers and dreamers are trying to overcome these formidable obstacles...
...already put together an experimental 100-h.p. steam engine with support from Mobil Oil, which is interested in the lubricating problems of steamers. SES President Richard Morse headed a 1967 federal study group, which concluded that a return to the steam engine was indeed possible. Morse says that theoretically a steamer could use any kind of fuel, "even camel dung, if there were enough camels," but he prefers kerosene. The fuel is not exploded inside the cylinder as it is in the internal-combustion engine but is burned in an external combustion chamber at atmospheric pressure. As a result...
...find a way to lessen the danger of freeze-ups in frigid weather and the problem of quickly getting up steam to start. SES staffers have only to glance out their windows for inspiration. Company offices are separated by a small stream from the site of the original Stanley Steamer works...
...paddle steamer with high, spindly funnels lies composedly beached in a red desert. Saplings enclose it; years ago the river vanished. From a circus cage on wheels, a bearded paterfamilias glowers, serenaded by a man in tails (on cornet), a bus boy (French horn), a girl in evening dress (violin), and a child perched in a potted shrub, tapping on a drum. A scattering of vacant chairs inhabiting an empty, silent landscape marks the spot where a party died. Philip C. Curtis, 63, is possibly the only Surrealist now living in Arizona. But Surrealism is a term he uses "quietly...
...only too delighted to respond to the spell. Most took full-page newspaper ads celebrating serpent fashions. Manhattan's Lord & Taylor opened a special shop, "Great Snakes," last month, stocked it with everything from real py thon tunics to synthetic-snake robes, jackets and dresses, and fake python steamer trunks. At Saks in San Francisco snaky accessories are going at such a striking rate there are never enough around for a window display. In Manhattan, boutiques got into the swing, repapered their walls with snakeskin and offered esoteric items like the cobra patchwork belt pouches and spats...