Thomas H. Maugh 11, in Sci-of Oil Shale ence (Dec. 9, 1977), 1515 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.
The United States in the 1970s has become reliant on high-priced for- eign sources of petroleum. According to Maugh, a Science staff writer, this combination of inelastic demand and rising prices has made the development of domestic oil shale economically feasible.
Oil shale-oil locked tightly in solid shale formations-has been touted before as a solution to America's energy crisis,...
the problems of conducting human tests. The primary threat posed water pollutants lies in their long- term, low-dose cumulative effects. Because humans live about 35 times longer than mice and have a far more variable genetic composition, high-dose animal exposure tests are no good for determining maximum exposure concentrations in humans.
Despite the lack of adequate testing techniques, says Sterrett, scien- tists must keep plodding along, taking care to continuously "review, re-evaluate,...
the Philadel- phia architect William Strickland, who routinely incorporated sculpture into the many new public build- ings he designed for the city. the time of Houdon's death in 1828, Philadelphia displayed a sculptural land- scape unmatched elsewhere in the new nation.
Philadelphia's William Rush,
who was once a carver of ship's
figureheads, executed this statue
of George Washington in 1S14.
"Vanity, Fame, Love and Robert Frost" by Donald Hall, in Commentary (Dec. 1977), 165...
a need to convince the world of his superiority. From this compulsion, says Hall, Frost constructed his public persona (the simple rustic) and his professional image (the fierce competitor bent on sitting alone atop the "steeple of literary acclaim").
Frost himself believed that he was an evil man who had to be tricked into acts of kindness-he joined in efforts to free poet Ezra Pound from a mental hospital, but only because he thought Pound's release would bring personal publicity. In...
Leonee Ormond, in The Burlington Magazine (Nov. 1977), Elm
House, 10-16 Elm St., London WC1, Eng-
land.
Although long regarded as a gold mine for the social historian, John Galsworthy's fictional series, The Forsyte Saga, has never been recog- nized as a harbinger of changing English taste in art. Businessman Soames Forsyte, the Saga's central character, is a collector of paintings; the time the novels have spanned the years 1886-1926, Soame...
Alain Rou~uik, in Etudes (Oct. 1977), 15 R& Monsieur. 75007 Paris, France.
When the military government of General Jorge Rafael Videla seized power in 1976 from President Isabel Peron, Argentinians faced both unbridled terrorism and an annual inflation rate as high as 480 percent. Videla moved quickly to crack down on terrorism. But according to Rouqui6, the terrorist threat is now being used chiefly as an excuse for continued civil repression.
Since the late 1960s, when the current wave of...
Alain Rou~uik, in Etudes (Oct. 1977), 15 R& Monsieur. 75007 Paris, France.
When the military government of General Jorge Rafael Videla seized power in 1976 from President Isabel Peron, Argentinians faced both unbridled terrorism and an annual inflation rate as high as 480 percent. Videla moved quickly to crack down on terrorism. But according to Rouqui6, the terrorist threat is now being used chiefly as an excuse for continued civil repression.
Since the late 1960s, when the current wave of...
M. G. Weinbaum, in Eat Oil The Middle East Journal (Autumn 1977),
1761 N St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
A 13 percent annual increase in food consumption, together with rural out-migration and sluggish farm productivity, threatens the Shah of Iran's ambition to build an industrial society rivaling those of the West, reports Weinbaum, a political scientist at the University of Illinois. Despite crash programs to spur agricultural development, he contends, food policy has fallen victim to the...
M. G. Weinbaum, in Eat Oil The Middle East Journal (Autumn 1977),
1761 N St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
A 13 percent annual increase in food consumption, together with rural out-migration and sluggish farm productivity, threatens the Shah of Iran's ambition to build an industrial society rivaling those of the West, reports Weinbaum, a political scientist at the University of Illinois. Despite crash programs to spur agricultural development, he contends, food policy has fallen victim to the...
contrast, Khrushchev's vain effort to adopt a "new" Soviet constitution during the late 1950s and early 1960s was an attempt to bar new Stalinist, "cults of personality" placing more rigid, legal controls over the Soviet system. Meissner, director of the Institute for Eastern Law at the University of Cologne, finds that both these tendencies persist in the draft Soviet Constitution published last spring after two decades of stalemate. (The constitution went into effect last October.)
According...