Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three young co-owners, estimates that the energy bill for a dome home ranges between one-third and one-half of that for a conventional house with the same floor space. John and Martha Evensta, a physician and his wife who have a five-room, $40,000 dome in Grand Rapids, Minn., say that their highest monthly electricity bill, in subzero January, came to $91-which included not only heating but also power for all their household appliances. The Evenstas' house is mainly heated by a wood-burning furnace backed up by a heat pump, plus a fireplace. Norm...
...government are attempting to destroy the Hispanic community and the Puerto Rican independence movement. By cooperating, the church has destroyed whatever credibility and trust it had with the oppressed." With that, Nemikin began serving up to 14 months in prison for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury...
...grand jury is investigating the F.A.L.N., a radical Puerto Rican independence group that claims responsibility for 49 U.S. bombings. At the Chicago apartment of the only known F.A.L.N. member, Carlos Alberto Torres, 24, FBI agents last November found 211 sticks of dynamite and 100 lbs. of explosive chemicals. They also discovered correspondence showing that Torres was a member of the Episcopal Church's Commission on Hispanic Affairs...
When agents turned up at Episcopal headquarters, Bishop Milton Wood, chief aide to Presiding Bishop John Allin, let them examine commission files and test church typewriters. Later the two bishops provided other material, figuring it was public information. Meanwhile the grand jury summoned Nemikin and her boss, Hispanic Commission Director Maria Cueto. Both refused to testify, on grounds of religious liberty, but a federal district court denied the claim. Though the national church is paying the two women's legal fees, it is not backing their refusal to testify. This week Maria Cueto is likely to join Raisa Nemikin...
...Place to Come To is ruminative, but it is not a novel of ideas or analysis. Jed Tewksbury may reflect the disaffected rootlessness of his generation, but he constantly touches earth through the women in his life, his interest in medieval courtly love poetry and Dante, and in his grand solitude, which whistles mournfully through the book. Warren tells us much about the forms of love-not the least of which he has elsewhere set forth in poetry: "In our imagination/ What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge. " R.Z. Sheppard