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Like other New England cities and towns, Winooski (pop. 7,500), Vt., has every reason to fret about rising heating costs. During the long winter, temperatures there frequently plummet to -20° F or lower. But some Winooskians think they may have found a way to beat their rising oil...
The idea of Winooski's dome began as a flight of fancy a few months ago during a meeting called by the town fathers to discuss energy needs. But as Tigan, 32, thought more about the idea, he decided it was worthwhile pursuing seriously. Sounding out officials in Washington...
With a tall, slender trunk and a ragged umbrella of drooping green leaves, it looks like a mimosa. But the tropical Leucaena leucocephala is a bit different from other trees: in tropical climates it grows as high as 65 ft. in five years. That makes it a prime candidate for...
For Benge, the leucaena has held a fascination since the mid-1960s, when he learned of it on an agricultural project in Viet Nam. A prisoner of the North Vietnamese from 1968 to 1973, he returned to the U.S. and helped herald its wonders to a growing list of tropical...
DIED. Jerome Cavanagh, 51, Detroit's mayor from 1962 to 1970; of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. Cavanagh rose to national prominence as an early champion of federal aid for decaying urban centers, but his political fortunes collapsed in the wake of his city's 1967 race...