Word: hydes
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Long before William Butler Yeats wrote these words, scientists dreamed of harnessing and storing the awesome energy of the sun. For Donald Hyde, a Stow, Mass., manufacturer, and thousands of other Americans, those dreams are becoming a reality. The sun provides most of the heat for Hyde's modern cedar-walled house, keeping its temperature at a comfortable 68° to 70° F. during even the coldest days of a New England winter. Solar energy also warms the water in Hyde's 16-ft. by 30-ft., kidney-shaped swimming pool. Putting the sun to work saves...
...More Ifs. Houses like Hyde's, their sharply pitched roofs covered by glassy-looking solar collectors, are still uncommon but may soon be familiar sights across the nation. On lots from Maine to California, in downtowns as well as rural areas, architects are erecting houses and office buildings designed to capture the sun's radiation for heating purposes. Schools in increasing numbers are also using solar energy to keep classrooms comfortable. The Government is seriously studying ways of using sunshine to generate electricity for utility customers. Though the current high costs of capturing the sun's energy...
...four are charged with assaulting a man with a hammer after a meeting at the Ohrenberger School in Hyde Park...
...meeting had been called to do something about improving schools in the Hyde Park and West Roxbury areas, which have been the scene of outbursts of racial hostilities and violence ever since U.S. District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity's ruling for school desegregation...
...little people in Boston--the garage attendants, janitors, longshoremen and city employees--like the Dap's style and feed him information as well as votes. He knew a teacher had been attacked in Hyde Park High School before School Superintendent Marion Fahey did. The workers at Dorchester District Court sent him an anonymous letter alleging improprieties that made the presiding judge call O'Neil nervously to explain. He claims to know every Boston cop by his first or last name, which is how he discovered that 14 city tow trucks bought, insured and registered over two years ago have never...