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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quilt of polyester and aluminized plastic, are a fancier and costlier option at $60 to $100 per window. For those who can afford to wait out winter in bed, down comforters-selling at four times last year's rate -and electric blankets are recommended. Macy's 15 New York City area stores now offer an array of such items in specialized boutiques aptly known as "65° shops...
Wood stoves are not the only energy-and money-saving gadgets for the home. From Casablanca-style ceiling fans to recently developed vent dampers and superefficient furnaces, Americans are turning to technologies old and new to scrimp and save on precious energy...
...their dwellings against the cold, more and more conservation-minded homeowners are turning their attention to what would otherwise be the frills and extras of the energy saver's world. Energy-saving gadgets are appearing on hardware-store shelves and in department-store mailers in proliferation. A wholly new type of retailing outlet, the energy boutique. has been spawned. One such shop for the thermally trendy, Windsun & Woods of Middletown, Conn., offers everything from quiltmaking kits to electricity-saving quartz space heaters and residential windmills for generating power...
...New York's high-fashion circles, it is known as Chilly Chic. In less trendy zones, people call it common-sense clothing. Either way, fear of goose bumps has struck: like squirrels gathering nuts, Americans are collecting cozy clothes for a low-energy winter. Department stores report record sweater sales, up as much as 50% over last year. Quilted down coats and jackets have descended from snowy mountains to urban streets. A mannequin in a Los Angeles store window wears thermal underwear -and spike heels. "Anything that even looks warm is big," explains a Chicago fashion executive...
...about the state of the hostages, and is saying even less, there are fears that some of the Americans may have already been broken by the experience and could denounce the U.S. at a staged spy trial. Charles Fenyvesi, one of the Hanafi hostages in 1977, writes in the New Republic that "had the siege gone on much longer, some of us would have broken down, one way or another. I shudder to think what more than 30 days of captivity might have done...