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...industries) minus 50 cents to 75 cents per hour (in extra transport charges and operating expenses for those industries which are best suited for location in the country) equals $90 to $100 per week. People would build their own houses (of an average size of two bedrooms and one bath, plus a kitchen and a living room) and transportation to work would be on foot or bicycle, or in buses instead of cars. Everybody would have chickens and gardens or leastwise everybody that wanted to. The aim is to restore a degree of coherence and autonomy to the material life...
Dispassionately, it presents good trends and bad trends. Many material benefits are improving. Nearly 80% of British households are now equipped with either a fixed bath or shower (65% more than in Germany, the next best-scrubbed European country) and 34% even have central heating (which may surprise visitors who have shivered through British winters...
Some accounts credit St. Thomas with converting Maloula to Christianity. Others ascribe the conversion to a passing hermit, a fervent Christian who was horrified to discover lascivious goings-on at a Roman bath in the village and cursed the place, thereby causing the bath to collapse over the heads of the libidinous bathers. A church now stands on the site of the baths...
...sounds of shattering champagne bottles will echo through shipyards from Bath, Me., to San Diego. Last month Commerce Department officials signed the two biggest commercial shipbuilding contracts in U.S. history. Both were for new types of ships called LNG tankers, which will carry huge quantities of liquefied natural gas from Algeria and perhaps Russia. One of the orders, for $269 million, went to General Dynamics; the federal share, which is less for advanced-technology ships like LNGS than for other models, is $64 million. The other order, for $298 million (federal share: $76 million) was bagged by Newport News Shipbuilding...
DARTMOUTH-HOLY CROSS - The Big Green Indians won't be over-confident for this semi-annual blood-bath at Holy Cross's Fitton Field. When Dartmouth cruised into downtown Worcester in 1966 with an 11 game winning streak, they left with a one game losing streak and the feeling most people have after they visit Worcester. The Crusaders' ace running back, Joe Wilson, should be back in the Cross's line-up after sitting out the last two games, and Dartmouth was less than impressive as it wallowed through the mud to a 24-14 victory over U.N.H. Holy Cross...