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...Minnesota, farmers sometimes stack bales of straw or garbage bags full of leaves against the outside of drafty house foundations. Cora Lee McKnight, 68, a Decatur, Mich., grandmother tells of Depression-era schemes to beat the cold: smearing a paste of flour and water into cracks, stuffing thickly folded newspapers between window and screen. "And we usually put hot-water bottles into our beds to keep our feet warm," she says. Other sug gestions: wrapping water heaters in blankets, insulating windows with corrugated cardboard and placing old carpets under new ones...
DIED. William L. McKnight, 90, pioneer advocate of industrial research and development who built and diversified a debt-ridden sandpaper concern into the $4 billion 3M Co.; in Miami Beach. McKnight left his family's South Dakota farm at 18 to become a bookkeeper's assistant in the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. at $11.55 a week. He rose quietly to become president of the company at 41, then chairman of the board until he retired...
Oregon State Senator Ken Jernstedt insists that the contest involves a treasured principle: "We want to maintain our freedom of choice." Florida State Representative Robert McKnight sums up the issue bluntly: "Stay the hell out of my business." With victory, argues California State Senator William Campbell, "our society will be a little bit freer...
...Thomas McKnight's landscapes are magic. Through his windows or the eyes of his birds, one can't quite tell what exists, or how. The only solid objects in "Spring Twilight Window" are the bars. McKnight's metaphysical "New England Valley"--which bears a striking resemblance to Harvard--is perhaps the most subtly intriging of all, a vision of a place dark and light, real and staged, at once...
...Charlotte Observer (circ. 169,968), owned by the Knight-Ridder chain, sends four editions across the Carolinas every morning, and more than 60% of its readers live outside Charlotte. Editor C.A. McKnight covers a lot of ground with only 38 reporters, but does not slight long-term investigative projects. One example: Observer reporters spent 21 months digging through expense vouchers at the Southern Bell Telephone Co.; so far, eleven executives have been indicted for cheating the utility. The paper's support of school busing has not pleased many readers, but Editor Reese Cleghorn's sensitive editorials rarely offend...