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Frank Scott Bedford, Mass...
...glass panels are walls composed of water-filled 55-gal. steel drums. The drums absorb the sun's heat by day, radiate it at night when the windows are covered by huge clamshell-like shutters to slow cooling. Similar systems work almost as well in colder climates. In Bedford, N.H., Ralph Tyrrell and Holly Anderson share a three-bedroom house that obtains its heat directly from the sun. South-facing windows catch the sun's rays during the day; foot-thick cement walls absorb heat and help prevent heat loss at night...
...hurricane, Everett S. Allen, fresh out of college, began his first full day as a reporter on the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard-Times, where he now serves as chief editorial writer. He had spent the summer of '38 on his native Martha's Vineyard, rowing out in a 10-ft. skiff to play harbor patrol to the steam yachts that visited Tisbury. That summer job held its own symbolism. Like thousands of other English majors before and since, the young Allen was waiting for somebody or something to make the connection between literature and life. As he polished...
What of the human beings, shaken, dwarfed, rendered insultingly insignificant? Allen ends his story in New Bedford, speaking for himself. Owning neither a raincoat nor a hat, he fared forth bareheaded on his first and most unforgettable assignment just in time to see a wall of water rolling toward the harbor...
...more than 1 billion lbs. of fish were caught off New England; by 1974 the catch had been chopped about in half, to 521 million lbs. As late as October 1971, yellowtail flounder (commonly served in East Coast restaurants as sole) brought 6? per lb. at New Bedford's daily fish auctions; last week the price was 85?. Now, says one New Bedford fisherman, "with the foreign invaders gone, perhaps our industry can grow a little." Seven spanking new steel-stern trawlers, worth upwards of $250,000 each, have already appeared alongside New Bedford's mostly wooden, archaic...