Word: orly
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Like other New England cities and towns, Winooski (pop. 7,500), Vt., has every reason to fret about rising heating costs. During the long winter, temperatures there frequently plummet to -20° F or lower. But some Winooskians think they may have found a way to beat their rising oil...
Tigan has no inkling yet of such details as whether the dome would be inflatable or rigid, what it would be made of, how air would be circulated, or even roughly how much it might cost. An artist's rendering commissioned by the town shows a structure about 200...
Despite such practical questions, Winooski's dome is stirring widespread interest. Tigan has been besieged with requests for radio and television interviews. He has also had an indirect boost from Buckminster Fuller, father of the geodesic dome. Says Shoji Sadao, Fuller's partner in the New York architectural...
That is the word being spread by Forestry Expert Michael Benge, an employee of the federal Agency for International Development, who has become a bureaucratic Johnny Appleseed for the leucaena. Benge reports that in some tropical lands, leaves from the tree are eaten like candy by children and, dipped in...
The magnet of the evening is Maggie Smith as Carson's wife Ruth. She seems to have slithered out of a Noel Coward comedy. Sophisticated, weary of it all, and restless, Ruth is given to brisk interior monologues, like "Help!" or "Watch it Tallulah!" Stoppard has given her a...