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...activity to an abrupt standstill. Very few people are like Blaise Pascal, who insisted: "The weather and my mood have little connection." Most feel that the weather indeed affects their moods, and yet a gloomy day does not necessarily mean a gloomy disposition for all: a book before the hearth, an afternoon of tinkering in the basement or an extended visit to the local bar pleases some people as well as the brightest sun. And at least one study of test scores seemed to suggest that the occasion of a violent storm stimulated the intellectual performance of an entire class...
Every element in the Loeb production conspires to undercut the play's serious intention. As if taking the cue from Donald Soule's unbalanced set design, which places the richly-colored tavern hearth flush against the dry burlap of symmetrical castle towers, the comic scenes, appearing in the midst of the serious, only seem to mock them. The peak of this production is reached when Falstaff, balancing his weight on a chair balanced on a table top, wearing a pillow on his head as crown, chastises Hal in mimicry of his father, the king. Even at the climax...
...which many catch cold, being scorched before, and, as it were, froze behind." Which is why he devised "the New-Invented Pennsylvanian Fire-Place"-better-known as the Franklin stove-which, he boasted, made his room twice as warm with a quarter as much wood as a conventional hearth. Franklin never patented his promethean invention, wishing to share its back-to-front benefits with the world, and a variety of stoves modeled on his old reliable are manufactured...
...heat) and in some cases thermostats and blowers that circulate the warm air. Although some heat is thereby lost, in many stoves the doors can be temporarily folded back, leaving a clear view of the dancing flames-as in a fireplace. A compromise between the Franklin and the open hearth is a heat-efficient device called the Thermograte, a tubular convection unit that can be inserted in the fireplace, enclosed with a glass front and boosted with a blower...
...veteran diplomat whose career peaked in 1953 when he was named Deputy Foreign Minister. He simultaneously served for two years as Moscow's Ambassador to Peking. (In the early '30s Kuznetsov earned an M.S. at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, and worked in the open-hearth division of the Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, Mich.) In praising the new Vice President, Politburo Member Mikhail Suslov, 74, referred to Kuznetsov's "rich experience of life." In his speech of acceptance, Kuznetsov pledged to dedicate "all my strength" to fulfilling the high honor bestowed...