Word: old
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since sum mer. When he absolutely must return home, he says, "I put newspapers in the cracks and sleep with my clothes on and put on all the blankets and quilts I can find. If you get pneumonia, that's it." In Wisconsin's Green County, two 65-year-old widows have moved into one house to save on fuel costs. In Chicago, volunteers are knitting mittens and scarves for poor children while the city's Hull House Community Center conducts weatherizing workshops for residents of the surrounding low-income neighborhood. In East Lansing, Mich., a "community tool box" provides...
...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...
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...
...powerful scents are selling. Worldwide sales of Opium are expected to reach $80 million this year, a lot for a brand that has been out for only two years. The top-selling perfume of all, with an estimated $150 million in annual sales, remains Revlon's six-year-old Charlie...
...malnourished on the beaches of Goa: a young European woman sits for days in a stupor with her fatherless child hanging onto a withered breast; a cult of ritual murderers, known as the Anand Marg, stalks the streets for victims; an American would-be rabbi buys a six-year-old waif from her father and is shocked when she attempts to demonstrate her gratitude with sexual favors...