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...automobile is still revving. The Dukes of Hazzard, an endless demolition derby masquerading as a plot, features a 1969 Dodge Charger called General Lee whose owners minister to it as the Lone Ranger did to Silver. (Just as the cowboy could kiss his pony but not his gal, the new auto-cowboys make much of caressing the curves of their hoods.) The latest incarnation of the car as creature is NBC's Knight Rider, a computerized, talking Trans Am that is a lineal descendant (with a slight Freudian twist) of the grouchy 1928 Porter that haunted Jerry Van Dyke...
...gravy train is slowing down. The Reagan Administration, which is cool to mass transit, initially declared a ban on funding for new rail systems and sought to phase out operating assistance by 1985. Pork-barrel-hungry Congressmen, however, objected to both moves. With the passage of the 5?-per-gal. gasoline tax, and its one penny for mass transit, the Administration agreed to lift the ban. But Reagan did persuade Congress to whittle operating subsidies by 21%, and in this fiscal year alone won an overall $400 million cut in capital spending. The gas tax raised $779 million for mass...
...that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might... travel. "Still, there is something adolescent about the intensity of Henry's ardor, whether for the sweetest pop music from the mid-1960s (his own teen-age years) or for his one-gal-guy idealism (the play describes Annie as "very much like the woman whom Charlotte has ceased to be," so in effect Henry has been faithful to his belle idéale by switching mates). As this little boy lost in the web of words and wonders, Rees was a jumping-jack...
...state-owned structure's basic secret: three swimming-pool-size, 250,000-gal. concrete water tanks resting in the basement. Like giant thermos bottles, these insulated containers can store heat, which can be tapped at will. In daytime, when the building's population is at its peak and office machinery is working full blast, the air in the central core of the building rapidly warms up. (The human body in a 72°F room gives off 250 B.T.U.s per hour, about equal to the heat from a 75-watt light bulb.) This hot air is propelled through...
...building would require some 45% more electricity to power the fans, sensors, heat pumps and large computer that operate the heating-cooling system. Nonetheless, they figure that when total costs are added up, they will be far ahead of the game. The self-heating scheme should save 740,000 gal. of oil a year (current cost: about $850,000) , for a net saving of nearly $400,000 annually...