Word: mckeown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...residents do monitor energy costs carefully. Advertising Salesman Charles McKeown listened approvingly to Carter's speech last week. Says he: "We have been very cognizant of saving energy. We put up awnings, caulked our windows and used exhaust fans instead of air conditioning last summer when the temperature was below 78°. We could consider solar energy. The tax incentive rang noisy bells in our heads-we are being clobbered on taxes." Mrs. Gibson plans to respond to Carter's challenge by calling in an architect to consult on insulation and on the hot water supply...
...McKeown is speaking for a number of her neighbors when she says: "I don't think we can comply with Carter's goals to cut down on gas consumption. We will just have...
...sound and happy Norwegian children," she told the audience, "I think of the boys and girls of Northern Ireland, children used to war, to nerve medicine and sleeping pills, and I ask: 'God, forgive us for what we have done.' " Speaking at times in broken Norwegian, Ciaran McKeown, 32, the former newsman who has emerged as the peace movement's chief adviser, added: "You help us pay the price for peace and together...
...with a flourishing magazine, financial backing and 100 activist groups, it has been felt in virtually every community in the province. The movement's Belfast office is papered with letters and telegrams of support. "We are not here to provide the climate for a new political initiative," McKeown told 10,500 backers in London's Trafalgar Square last week. "We are the political initiative...
Blood Brothers. Such a prospect stirs suspicions and concern among Ulster's traditional politicians-both Protestant and Catholic. Their worry: McKeown's vision of an "ideal democracy" organized "from the bottom up" could clash with what essentially will have to be a political and constitutional solution. Some also fear a crippling backlash of cynicism should the peace movement, like others before it, falter after a headline-grabbing series of rallies. "I have no great faith in it," says a leading Catholic politician. "The people of Ulster are not all blood brothers, as the movement says. They are still...