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...Chief of Correspondents Benjamin Cate has just traded in an eight-cylinder sports car for a four-cylinder auto that cannot make jackrabbit starts but uses only half as much gasoline as the sports car. Picture Researcher Suzanne Richie has begun weaving blankets for friends on a foot-powered loom in her apartment, and Nation Reporter-Researcher Sally Bedell no longer leaves a 75-watt bulb on in her apartment to sustain her exotic $75 dracaena house plant. For Business Writer Jack Kramer, a former London resident, economizing on energy is old news. "The English advise one to gravitate toward...
Among Miró's current projects are two new Sobreteixims - one hung with umbrellas, another so big (20 ft. by 36 ft.) that Royo has had to construct a special loom to make it. "It will be the largest tapestry ever woven," says Miró proudly. "It is une folie. But then you have to be crazy...
...stirred his first controversy by hinting that he might stop the review of the Kent State shootings that had been ordered by Richardson. Saxbe has outspoken views on capital punishment (for) and gun-control legislation (against). All in all, Saxbe's tenure at the Justice Department did not loom as a quiet one. That prospect seemed to bother the frustrated legislator not at all. "You sit around the Senate for years and think of what you could do; you shoot your mouth off," says Saxbe. "Then they hand you the ball. You can't go home...
...darkness falls, the skyline of Portland, Ore., takes on an eerie cast, as if the city of 390,000 were deserted. Along the downtown streets, the familiar glow of neon signs is missing. Against the horizon, the 30-story Georgia-Pacific Building and 40-story First National Bank Tower loom like abandoned hulks, their silhouettes illuminated only by a meager handful of office lights and the winking red beacons that warn aircraft that the buildings still stand...
Harvard's loss to Dartmouth may loom larger and larger as the season progresses. However, next week's game against Penn will probably reveal a lot more than Saturday's loss to the Big Green. The Crimson can set its season straight with a victory over the Quakers--a loss could all but end any hopes for a Harvard title this season...