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Outside major cities (where a cord of firewood can cost up to $90) good hardwood, such as ash, hickory, oak, hard maple, beech or black locust, can be had for little or nothing. Both national and state forests encourage homeowners to cut down and remove deadwood from specified areas, and many private owners encourage the same practice, since it helps clear the way for new growth. Geri Harrington, a lively Connecticut woman who has written an excellent new guide, The Wood-Burning Stove Book (Macmillan; $12.95), lists many other sources of free wood, such as utility companies, which constantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Back-to-Wood Boom | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...remedies for segregation, more predominantly white communities are trying to take the initiative and integrate themselves-with varying success. Two current and contrasting examples: Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, where an advertising campaign to promote voluntary integration shows all the signs of failure, and the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, where urban specialists gathered earlier this month to study a promising local program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Luring Blacks, Keeping Whites | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

Those of you who prefer to swing your partners can choose between the ERA Benefit Square Dance, at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Agassiz Gym, and the New England Country Dance with Peter Guarnaccia and the Oak Leaf Country Orchestra, at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Adams House dining hall. The benefit is $5 for students, $10 otherwise; I haven't got an admission price for the Country Dance, and I'm not about to call Kriston Koths at 2 a.m. to find...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Notes from the Underground | 10/6/1977 | See Source »

...from business as ; usual in the oak-paneled Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room on Capitol Hill. From behind the potted palms, the U.S. Navy Commanders' Trio plinked out Indiana, while congressional movers and shakers wreaked havoc on mounds of shrimp, deviled eggs and sliced beef. The occasion: a retirement fete honoring Frances Knight, 72, for 22 years absolute ruler-some said Dragon Lady-of the U.S. Passport Office. A legend of efficiency, she was also a scrappy defender against a large assortment of enemies, including liberals who opposed her militant conservatism and State Department bureaucrats who chafed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 8, 1977 | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

Last week, however, blasphemy was once again at issue in the oak-paneled Court No. 8 at London's Old Bailey. The defendants: Gay News (circulation: 20,000), a fortnightly newspaper for homosexuals, and Denis Lemon, 32, editor of the periodical, who came to court with a button saying GAY NEWS FIGHTS ON in the lapel of his conservative three-piece gray suit. The offense: publishing a poem by James Kirkup, in which a Roman centurion describes his sexual relations with the body of the crucified Christ. Prosecutor John J. Smyth called the verses "so vile that it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: On Trial for Blasphemy | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

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