Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reaching the Peril Point. Very little could be done to ease the present crisis. The transmission companies were faced with insufficient pipeline capacity: they could not fit enough gas into their systems to meet burgeoning demand. As temperatures dropped, meters at monitoring stations showed a lowering of pipeline pressure, indicating big surges in demand. "The gas was being pulled out faster than we could put it in," said Henry King, an executive of the sprawling Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., a network of seven gas distributors in several mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states. "In some plants we were reaching the peril...
McDade points out that there is still a small chance that the new bacterium may turn out to be a secondary invader rather than the disease agent itself. But for the moment, the disease sleuths think they have their bug and are now trying to fit the bacterium-which as yet does not even have a nickname-into its proper niche in the microbial world. They are also trying to answer major questions about it: How and where does it grow? How is it transmitted? (Legionnaires' disease is apparently not carried from one person to another.) One reassuring fact...
Answers to many questions about this enigmatic bard lie in the pages of Souvenirs and Prophecies, a commingling of diaries, early writings and annotations by Stevens' daughter Holly. Here is the Harvard undergraduate, scribbling doggerel fit for a greeting card: "Long lines of coral light/ And evening star,/ One shade that leads the night/ On from afar...
...Haven, the Coopers have a three-story clapboard house on Everit Street. Dick Cooper keeps fit by playing tennis in summer, squash in winter He neither smokes nor imbibes anything stronger than wine. In fact, he prefers apple juice, preferably the mellow German Apfelsaft. He commutes to his nearby office by bicycle or motor scooter But those easy commuting days will soon be over
...audience, which included a large proportion of emigre Russians, students and critics, fastened on Kremer's gaunt, almost spectral appearance as well as his spellbinding playing. Whatever a Soviet fiddler should look like (Oistrakh was round and beefy, his rival Leonid Kogan short and slender), Kremer does not fit the image. His is more that of an intellectual rock-'n'-roll star badly in need of a square meal. He weighs but 125 lbs. and consequently looks a foot taller than his 5 ft. 9 in. He wears his brown hair long and his sideburns an inch...