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...York City, John Bohlman, 90, and his wife Rose, 86, had plenty of heating oil in their furnace. But the fuel pump broke; the couple, both deaf mutes, were unable to signal neighbors for help and froze to death. Near Pendleton, S.C., Margaret Swaney's new wood-stocked heater malfunctioned and started a fire; her three teen-age children were killed. Herbert Ahlstedt, 54, of Level Plains, Ala., was knocked unconscious by falling, ice-heavy tree limbs. Face down in the snow, he froze and died...
...source of a moving assignment. Boston Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand, who covered Viet Nam for TIME from 1972 to 1974, discovered that his war experience provided an important link with the veterans he met. Says Hillenbrand: "For months after leaving Indochina, the innocent whoosh of a water heater could trigger the memory of a rocket attack. It was not hard for me to know how veterans felt when they returned." New York Bureau Chief Peter Stoler, who served as an infantryman in Korea for 14 months, was also able to bring a soldier's point of view...
...many-splendored thing. It can range from garbage collecting to paper shuffling, and even, after a recent ruling in Michigan, to sexual intercourse. Domenico Signorelli, 37, was engaged in the latter one spring night in Birmingham, England, when he was overcome by carbon monoxide from a space heater. He died ten days later; his companion, whom he had met on the job, recovered. Signorelli's widow collected $170,000 in life insurance, and there the matter might have ended had her husband committed his indiscretion back home. But since he had been sent abroad by his new employer...
...their own. But, in recent years and with growing regularity, Houses have also been a domain for faulty heat and plumbing, peeling paint and plaster and some of the College's biggest headaches. "Some rooms are 100 degrees, some are ten. I have one roommate who uses a space heater. Another one keeps his window open," J. Marc Chapus '81, says, recalling winter heating at Winthrop...
...when an alarm light flashed and a bell jolted Young and Crippen out of their reveries. It was a warning of a malfunction in a heating unit on one of the three auxiliary power units for Columbia's hydraulic systems, which control the landing gear and elevens. The heater keeps the unit's fuel from freezing up. A throw of a switch got it working again, but Columbia is such a masterpiece of engineering redundancy that any one of the units could have saved the day. Said Flight Director Neil Hutchinson: "It's absolutely amazing. We didn...