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...trim energy use 5% to 10% or even more without spending any money, by such simple measures as reducing lighting, lowering temperatures, ensuring that doors and windows stay shut, leaving unused space unheated, tuning boilers and similar equipment to maximum efficiency, and turning off unused machinery. In Bloomfield, Conn., for example, Connecticut General Insurance Co. has reduced lighting by two-thirds in the executive offices of its sprawling building. Like hundreds of other firms, Connecticut General also has reduced lighting in the cafeteria, hallways and the parking lot, cut down the use of fans and air conditioning, and turned...
Died. Ada Louise Cornstock Notestein, 97, first full-time president of Radcliffe College (1923-43); in New Haven, Conn. During her last year as president, Notestein ended a 64-year custom by persuading Harvard to open its courses to women...
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Died. Alfred Carl Fuller, 88, the Horatio Alger of door-to-door selling who parlayed a $375 operation into the multi-million-dollar Fuller Brush Co.; of a form of blood cancer; in Hartford, Conn. Fuller got his foot in the door by making brushes at night and soft-selling them by day to housewives in Boston. He eventually recruited an army of Fuller Brush Men and "Fullerettes" that today numbers 25,000 and sells 325 varieties of household brushes, cosmetics and chemicals all over the U.S., Canada and Mexico. According to Fuller's homespun philosophy, " 'American...
...following Harvard students have won Rhodes Scholarships for 1974: Charles Garvin of Mather House and Jackson, Miss.; Elliot F. Gerson of Quincy House and Storrs, Conn.; Bruns H. Grayson of Adams House and Alameda, Calif.; Walter Isaacson of Lowell House and New Orleans, La.; David L. Johnson of Adams House and Indianapolis, Ind.; and Lief D. Rosenblatt of Eliot House and Egremont, Mass...