Word: airings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high humidity, it would cause the teak in Jones [symphony] Hall to fall off the walls, the glue binding books in the library to crystallize, clothing in department stores to mildew and blood donors to faint." He claims that his alternative-setting thermostats at 76° F, starting air conditioning later, shutting it off earlier and turning down lights-would save 25% more energy than Carter's proposal. Presumably, many citizens will merely resort to a simpler solution: electric fans in summer and space heaters in winter-measures that will hardly aid in lowering fuel bills...
...begins with a lecture, then moves on to mathematical exercises-say, computing the rate at which heat will be produced by withdrawing control rods from the reactor's core. But the most important training is the "hands-on," or practical, instruction. The classroom is a gleaming, $3 million air-conditioned simulation of the control rooms in 42 G.E. reactors now in operation around the country. With one important difference: the training center's controls are connected to a computer, not a reactor. Jokes Instructor Jerry Maher: "We have everything but Jane Fonda...
...cerebral chief of covert operations, Richard Bissell Jr. It had been passed on to President Kennedy by an unenthusiastic-but not disapproving-President Eisenhower. In the naive belief that U.S. involvement could be concealed, Kennedy kept telling the CIA to "reduce the noise level" of the planned air strikes, and he kept scaling down the air cover. Not even highly skeptical military chiefs, secretly relieved to let the CIA run the project, had the nerve to inform Kennedy that the operation had grown too large to hide its origins, yet remained too limited to succeed. Looking back, one CIA official...
Despite the debacle, General George R. Doster, an Alabama Air National Guard commander who had taken part in what he called the most "asinine operation I ever saw," later was summoned to CIA headquarters in Virginia and permitted to read a letter commending him for his clandestine help. As he started to put it in his pocket, it was snatched away. Oh, no, he was told, it was secret and could only go in his files. He felt "like a dumb ass," Doster told Wyden...
...pursuing neutral grain spirits and colleens with unflagging energy. Here, in the cool rationality of Moore Hall, is MacCarthy's fellow Catholic and countryman George Moore, historian of the French Revolution and Cassandra of its Irish offspring, dreading that "the spirit of Rousseau is in the very air these days, like dandelion puffballs." Recording the contagion, as one of the novel's several narrators, is the Rev. Arthur Vincent Broome, M.A. (Oxon.), dispatched from England to shepherd a Protestant flock in distant Killala but soon questioning whether he is merely a "priest to a military cult...