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...heaters stand free with no flue, although ventilation through an open door or window is recommended. They produce hardly any odor, although new out-of-the-box heaters generate a slight smell of oil and paint that their makers claim disappears after the first tankful of fuel is used up. All models have automatic shutoff devices to guard against fire if they are jarred or tipped over...
More on Dean Fox's housing report: The three Houses with the lowest of percentage of people with Group I and Group II grades--Kirkland, Eliot and Currier--are currently the top three contenders for the Straus Cup. Currier, with a slight lead in the competition, could become the first Radcliffe House to win the prestigious intramural title...
...otherwise. She does make the three women who face them singularly interesting. They are all intelligent enough to wish, sometimes, that they were less so. Nell would like to blend comfortably into the extending circle of Southern widows in her town, but her acerbic side keeps her at a slight, disquieting remove. Cate periodically feels the urge to "lapse wearily" into a man's care and then bristles angrily at her own weakness. Lydia tries to organize herself into happiness, knowing that each new accomplishment will set the stage for another bout of worry and planning. Stubbornly, she pursues...
Confusion was indeed Wall Street's theme as the bellwether first trading sessions of 1982 unfolded last week. Like an anxious mountain climber midway up a steep cliff, the stock market cautiously tried a slight advance last Monday. But then vertigo took over. On Tuesday, brokers' telephones lit up with customer sell orders that drove the Dow Jones industrial index down 17 points, the market's worst one-day slide in four months...
Columnist Joseph Kraft saw the Administration ending its first year "floundering in triumph. The reason is that the goals attained by the President were heavily ideological. Since the Reagan ideology bears scant relation to the real world, his successes make only slight progress on the true problems." In foreign affairs, the globetrotting Kraft finds Washington "lagging behind events . . . Ronald Reagan came to the presidency with only a smattering of general, often incompatible, ideas about foreign policy." The Administration is now subjected to "unkind cuts from friends all over the world"-from West Germany, Israel, Saudi Arabia and China. "First Washington...