Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hampton, N.Y., heat from solar panels in the roof is collected in a bin containing 1,000 sealed, plastic bottles of water, which can hold the heat for as long as three sunless days. The system provides between 50% and 75% of Evans' home heating requirements. Alden and Margaret Krider of Manhattan, Kans., have fashioned their own solar collectors from discarded aluminum printing plates, storing solar heat in discarded paint cans filled with water. They are delighted with the results. Says Krider: "Every 1,000 cu. ft. of gas I don't burn...
...Labor candidates in the general election two years ago switched to the opposition Tories, who picked up two of the seats. The government now commands only 316 votes in the 635-seat House-312 Labor M.P.s and four consistent supporters-and has lost its working majority. Exulted Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher: "Dry rot has set into the government house, and you know just how quickly dry rot runs through a whole building...
Monday night, the Cultural Survival Group is showing Margaret Mead's "New Guinea Journal," with a discussion afterward, at Lesley's Welch Auditorium at 7 p.m., $2.00, all inclusive...
Disabled students have only two per cent accessability to Harvard's facilities, Margaret Drickamer '77, organizer of the group, said yesterday...
Among other ethnic groups, Carter did better. In Rhode Island, which has the highest unemployment rate in the nation (11%), Catholic blue-collar workers, responding to union drives, cast thousands of pocketbook votes for Carter, helping him sweep the state. Said Margaret McKenna, Carter's campaign chairman in Rhode Island: "The turnout was big because the people feared that another term for Ford would have been disastrous for the state. The economy has been in constant decline in Rhode Island, and Ford was blamed for it." Carter also took some 56% of the Irish and about...