Word: trappings
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...inside rooms at the same time they were heating outside rooms-particularly in glass-walled buildings, whose outside rooms not only lose a great deal of heat in winter but get cooked by the summer sun. Finally, in the early '60s, General Electric engineers lit upon a solution: trap the heat-light through special ducts in the lighting fixtures, pipe it to outside rooms where it is needed most. They found that whole buildings could be heated inexpensively with nothing more than the lamps that light them...
Officially, I'Affaire Voodoo was over. Or was it? If De Gaulle's most skillful intelligence operatives had arranged the whole thing as an elaborate trap to embarrass an unsuspecting U.S. Air Force, his agents could not have given le grand Charles a better case to justify his long-felt need to get the Americans out of Europe-or at least out of France...
Refreshing Behind. To make way for all the warmed-over Bewitched, Bonded and otherwise bewildered spin-offs of spinoffs, 31 last-season shows had to go. And with one eye fixed on the ratings, network executives guillotined a number of old standbys. Mr. Ed has finally closed his trap. Jack Benny will have no regular show for the first time since he started on radio 33 years ago. Neither will Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Paar, Bing Crosby or Joey Bishop. Also missing will be the sophisticated Rogues, the historically interesting Profiles in Courage, and the always dramatically cogent Defenders. Among...
...Junks. The week's most spectacular fight came near Chu Lai, the coastal airbase defended by 2,500 U.S. Marines. There the Viet Cong overran an island headquarters of the South Vietnamese "Junk Fleet" (TIME, May 7), but before they could retreat, the marines stormed ashore to trap them. Many Viet Cong swam to safety, but eight were killed and 45 captured...
...dangerous liquid within the chamber was released as a gas by an ingenious venting system. Pressure on the liquid forced it down into a trap underneath the truncated conical chamber onto a mass of small copper pellets. Heat from the pellets quickly and safely changed the liquid to a gas, which flowed up a chimney, where it was harmlessly ignited...