Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Like most Vietnamese deserters, the soldiers were draftees from South Viet Nam. After receiving rudimentary basic :raining, Privates Tran, 25, Mai, 21, and Van, 24, had been shipped to northwest Cambodia to reinforce the occupying troops. Though Tran and Mai were sent to Cambodia in different units, their transport was identical: U.S.-made C-123 cargo planes, piloted by Soviet airmen. At the military airfield at Siem Reap, Tran spotted from 50 to 70 Soviet maintenance men servicing Soviet planes and U.S. aircraft captured by the Vietnamese after the fall of Saigon...
...bleats and print blinks with warnings and alarms. Cancer alerts have become almost as commonplace as weather reports. Strictures on how to avoid heart attacks pop up everywhere. Preventive campaigns stir up a constant din of sermons against careless driving, against starting fires, against getting too fat. It is like the continual murmur of doom's own voice...
...from $379 to $689, against a demand that exceeds 1,300 a day. Business is up 122% over last year. Morande talks bemusedly of visiting a retail stove store in Portland, Ore., where ten salesmen, gracing 1,000 sq. ft. of floor space, "actually were handing consumers numbers, just like in a delicatessen, to wait in line for a stove." Some economists dismiss such sales as "life-style purchases, made to express social attitudes." Believers go right on cutting, scrounging and burning wood...
...doubts are rising about such large-scale woodburning. Huge chippers that swallow entire trees are used for harvesting; since they leave no small limbs to rot and replenish the forest, the practice can amount to mining the thin topsoil. "In 50 years," says one observer, "New England could look like Lebanon." President Nick Muller of Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H., has another sort of woodburning in mind. He wants to build a $1.75 million central heating plant fueled by sawdust from nearby sawmills. Sawdust is cheap, burns cleanly and has much heating power. Muller, a historian, is thankful...
...loss; light gray showed that insulation was needed. Suppliers of thermal glass and insulation materials report strong sales across the country, although high interest rates have kept down new construction. Low-interest or no-interest loans for weatherizing are sometimes available through utilities. Along with how-to-do pamphlets like In the Bank ... or Up the Chimney, the Federal Government offers two types of tax credit: up to $300 for energy-saving devices, such as insulation and storm windows, and up to $2,200 for equipment that provides renewable energy, such as windmills and solar water heaters. Wood stoves...