Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sent up the chimney decades ago, some residents are experimenting with drying and burning peat. Mantle kerosene lamps are in fashion through the Northeast: not only is their light soft and pleasant, but the heat they radiate is equal to almost half that of a small electric space heater...
...majority of the nation's apartment dwellers who do not have fireplaces, there are a few alternatives. Space heaters are selling well, though fire departments warn of dangers from liquid fuel and certain electric models. Safer and cheaper by far are the 79? sheets of transparent plastic offered as "indoor storm windows." Used in combination with Mortite and other caulking compounds (some offered in decorator colors), they can effectively seal out drafts around window frames, balcony doors and air-conditioning units. One Chicago store shows shoppers a quick how-to-do-it movie to help them with installation. Insulated...
...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...
...documents human responses under a variety of climatic conditions. Goldman suggests that manual dexterity can suffer in temperatures of less than 68°. Does this mean that wool hats and mufflers will soon be de rigueur in the typing pool? Or fingerless gloves? "I'll bring in a space heater before I'll wear those," grumbles a Manhattan secretary.* But she will try thermal underwear beneath her baggy jeans...
...rendezvous in space...