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Efficiency Ratings. Without waiting for Washington, California has set standards so tough that fully 80% of the air conditioners now sold there would be outlawed by 1979. In New York City, manufacturers already are required to furnish EYCO information -standing for Estimated Yearly Cost of Operation-to prospective buyers; there, the average small 5,000-B.T.U. machine, costing $200 to $225, has an EYCO of about...
...NASA'S Ames Research Center at Mountain View, Calif., announced last week that they have identified a discshaped object in the constellation Cygnus that is not only an evolving star, but could well be a sun in the process of forming its own planets. Their discovery could furnish scientists with an opportunity to study planetary formation and figure out how the sun's children-including earth itself-developed...
...Russians wanted a straight barter deal. The company agreed to furnish them with the essentials for making Pepsi, including bottling equipment from West Germany, over a five-year period (the Russians make their own bottles and handle all distribution). In return, Pepsi got the rights to sell Russian wine and vodka in the U.S. The arrangement boils down to this: the more Soviet booze Pepsi can market in the U.S., the more Pepsi concentrate (and new equipment) the Soviets...
...John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion had the clever notion of resetting this story in the rock world, where heady glamour and careening careers furnish the closest contemporary equivalent of the Hollywood flush years. Barbra Streisand and her inamorato Jon Peters weighed into the project as Dunne and Didion drifted away. Batteries of writers and directors were exhausted before the present version was put together under-or perhaps around-Director Frank Pierson (The Looking Glass War). Yet, what the serious quarterlies call "the authorship" of A Star Is Born is unclear. Responsibility must surely rest with Streisand and Peters...
...want TIME to be food for thought, not to furnish pictures for some bachelor apartment...