Auto engines face slow shift as JPL study calls for fuel tech
Dr R Rhoads Stephenson of JPL led a 15 engineer review sponsored by Ford on future auto propulsion. They say current engines can meet emissions with no energy loss, with gas turbines or Stirling engines offering real gains. Volvo’s catalytic exhaust proves feasible, while mass funding would be needed for new engines. Detroit critics and government cost sharing loom.
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R. Rhoads Stephenson
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JPL
Carnegie Tech
Stephenson
Pasadena
New England College
Stirling
Ford Motor CO
Detroit
Volvo
Ford
Chrysler
American Motors
Vermont Arts Scene and World Events Snapshot
A collage of notes covers Patsy Santo selling a painting to Canajoharie NY Museum, Grandma Moses turning 91 at home with 17 great grandchildren, WWII era deaths and treaties, historical milestones from 1783 to 1943, and reflections on language usage as critiqued by Edwin Newman. The mix includes local Vermonters, national figures, and literary commentary on modern speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee On Agriculture
Vermont Bankers Association
Patsy Santo
Southern Vermont Art Center
Manchester
Canajohairie
N.Y
Sugar House
Grandma Moses
Language abuse and politics in Washington and beyond
A satirical meditation on pretentious euphemisms in politics and media, noting CNN style jargon and the rise of rustic rhetoric in American life. The piece surveys factions from the CIA to Lincoln Center, Carter and Mondale, and the public’s flirtation with rural values as urban voters drift toward country candidates. It references Newman, Rousseau, and figures like Flood, with broader comments on language and power.
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CIA
New York
Lincoln Center
Dvorak
Oomer
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Washington
Episcopal Church
House
Capitol
Newman
Daniel Flood
Pennsylvania
Flood
Mud Between the Toes and Modern American Politics
The piece argues Americans seek rustic, old-time farming virtues as salvation in politics. It notes Carter and Ford embody rustic religious economics favoring farmers, while many candidates lack authentic country roots. It contends voters want mud between the toes values without actual mud in practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Juilliard
Sutton Place
Lake Forest
Sauerkraut steadiness and kumquat folly in Bicentennial view
Washington column notes stable canned sauerkraut stocks per Commerce Department while mocking Agriculture Department priorities. It cites Sam Katz contemplating a switch from kumquats to tung nuts, poking fun at federal policy preoccupations. The piece ends by observing a nation that is sauerkraut wise yet kumquat foolish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick West Washington
UPI
Commerce Department
America
Agriculture Department
Sam Katz
Plainsfield Gridiron
Department
Redesign Aims To Restore Signers On Two Dollar Bill
The Treasury plans to reinsert six missing signers from New Hampshire Virginia South Carolina Delaware and New York into John Trumbull s Declaration of Independence scene on the back of the two dollar bill to boost circulation. The main obstacle remains cash register drawers which cannot accommodate the deuce leading to bills being stored under the drawer.
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Treasury Department
John Trumbull
New Hampshire
Virginia
South Carolina
Delaware
New York
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Conway
Mass
Bennington County
Jesse T. Watson
Bennington
North Bennington
South Shaftsbury
Arlington
John Proud
Louis Lefor
Saratoga
WCTU
Edward Simonds
Burton Bromley
Walter Whitman
Edward Hart
Edgar Redfern
W. R. White
E. J. Worthington
Burton W. Potter
First National Bank
Louis C. Descautels
Vermont Forums Inc
Monument Ave
Old Bennington
Paris
Great Britain
Aaron Burr
United States
Thomas Jefferson
Sandra Jean Wahlquist
Carl H. Wahlquist
Ft. Lauderdale
of Florida
Verdun
Japan
Germany
France
Australia
New Zealand
South Africa
Canada
Gillette Co
Edwin Newman
Henry Kissinger
New York Times
Beame
Dubuque
Iowa
Henry Wallace
Ship of State
Abe Lincoln
Herman Hesse
Thoreau
Rousseau
Lord Byron
Marie Antoinette
Plaza
Versailles
Plains
Walter Mondale
Afton
Minn
Robert Dole
Russell
Gerald Ford
Grand Rapids
Mich
Sticks
Wordsworth
Russell Baker
Coop Ell
Chicago Daily News
Bennington, Vermont
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