Word: summer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Classes began today at the Harvard Alumni College, a little-known adjunct to the Summer School...
Harvard, until last year, did not allow outside groups to use the stadium. This year, Harvard will permit two groups--Haymarket Concerts and Summerthing, a Boston non-profit arts group--to use the stadium. This will be the second summer in a row Summerthing has used the stadium...
...four sons had not been at the house at the same time for 46 years, and it was a time for remembrance. Franklin, 64, John, 63, Elliott, 68, and James, 71, were together again at Campobello, the historic summer home of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt off the New Brunswick coast. Sister Anna died 3½ years ago, but the others had reconvened from distant places to tape an oral history of family life at what is now the Roosevelt Campobello Park. James, a business consultant, recalled that "when we were small and lived here, we didn't have...
...Department of Energy and the proposed effective date 1979, not 1984. Part of President Carter's stand-by energy-conservation measure approved by Congress last May, the plan in question would require that thermostats in nonresidential buildings be set no lower than 80° F in the summer and no higher than 65° F in the winter, and that hot water settings be turned down to 105° F. Should Carter decide to implement the measure this week as planned, workers in some 5 million such buildings would suddenly find themselves deprived of the air-conditioned comfort...
...donors to faint." He claims that his alternative-setting thermostats at 76° F, starting air conditioning later, shutting it off earlier and turning down lights-would save 25% more energy than Carter's proposal. Presumably, many citizens will merely resort to a simpler solution: electric fans in summer and space heaters in winter-measures that will hardly aid in lowering fuel bills...