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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Department of Energy gives much of the credit for the shrinkage in demand to high prices that in turn have led to greater conservation efforts. Citizens are discovering that plugging holes to keep cold air out and hot air in actually works?and saves money. This may not add up to Jimmy Carter's "moral equivalent of war," but the President's description of the energy crisis no longer seems absurd. Heat itself has regained its elemental magic, and keeping warm has become a tribal obsession. The season of Great Cold approaches. Scrape flesh from animal skins. Gather food. Drag...
...cost estimates and anticipated savings. Randolph's audit on his own gas-heated four-bedroom home in Hillcrest, N.Y., persuaded him to begin a three-year up grading that will lay foam insulation throughout the ground floor, put nine inches of insulation in the attic, install new siding and add a solar hot-water heater. Estimated cost...
Switching frequencies from opera's Luciano Pavarotti (Sept. 24) to rock 'n' roll's The Who-subject of this week's cover story-is not too much to ask of a music editor. But add responsibility for editing major stories on the movies' Kramer vs. Kramer (Dec. 3), television's Mork (March 12), ballet's Gelsey Kirkland (May 1, 1978), and the job calls for Martha Duffy. As senior editor of TIME's Cinema, Music, Dance, Show Business, Television and Theater sections for the past five years, she is in effect...
...various Administration proposals recommend. But the impact on consumer prices would be severe. A full 2.4 points of the nation's current 13.1% inflation rate is traceable directly to increases in gasoline prices this year. Tacking another 50? a gal. onto fuel costs by most estimates would add three or four points more to the consumer price index next year...
...Lillian Gish has finally become slightly age sensitive. "Whenever I tell anyone what's on my birth certificate," complains the stage and movie actress, who began her career as a child and became a silent screen star with late Sister Dorothy, "they always add a few years." But Gish is not altogether bashful about her fourscore and three. Holding court at a White House reception last week honoring the performing arts, she recalled the first time she and Dorothy were invited to the presidential mansion. It was for a special showing of their movie, Orphans of the Storm...