Word: countryful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
At a recent "Thermoscan" show at Mamaroneck High School in New York, 2,300 house owners showed up over a two-day period to see aerial photographs of their neighborhoods taken by Con Ed with heat-sensitive cameras. A black roof indicated little heat loss; light gray showed that insulation...
This season of makeshift and grumbling, however, may turn out to have been the period in which the U.S., without really noticing that its attitudes have shifted, passed a balance point toward the acceptance of solar energy. A principle of architecture's postmodern school is that architecture is not an...
That drastic step hardly proved necessary. Sitting between a portrait of the Ayatullah Khomeini and an anti-Shah poster, Marine Corporal William Gallegos seemed fit and lucid. His remarks were excerpted on the evening news and aired in full during a half-hour special later that night. He said that...
If the Americans in Tehran are rescued, says Dr. Hubbard, they will need a medical-psychiatric debriefing and months of care. "Six weeks after they're back in the country, nobody will remember who they are or give them the time of day. That's just about the...
Cutting back on consumption is not enough. Tanzania uses roughly half as much petroleum as in 1972, but its oil bill has risen 900%, and now eats up half of all earnings from the country's exports. Complains Rodrigo Carazo, President of Costa Rica: "Our 1972 oil needs cost...