Word: washing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days to reduce the need for laundry water. A few zealots are giving up ice cubes in their drinks to save on water and on the electricity used to manufacture ice. The wife of one Department of Agriculture specialist even uses the water in her hot-water bottle to wash her hands and clean the family poodle...
...white driver who becomes Scott's friend and, later, mechanic. Pam Grier, up out of the unlamented blaxploitation pictures of a few years back, is patient and supportive as Scott's long-suffering wife. Director Schultz, as he demonstrated in last year's Car Wash, has a loose, uninsistent style that gives the picture the quality of a yarn being retold on someone's back porch. The film will put many in mind of Rocky, but its real antecedents are in the '30s, when directors like Frank Capra were giving us inspiring little slices...
Orville G. Merkel Port Angeles, Wash...
...composer's grandfather was one of the wealthiest men in Indiana. Cole's adoring mother not only assured him that the world was his oyster, but presented it to him on the half shell-with champagne to wash it down. The boy spent summers in Europe, attended private schools in Massachusetts, and took his degree at Yale. In New Haven he had his own piano and, despite hayseed check suits and non-U Midwestern ways, ingratiated himself with wit and melodies. One of his undergraduate efforts is still mandatory half-time fare at Yale football games. His grandfather...
Died. Roy Crane, 75, comic-strip cartoonist and creator of Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer; in Orlando, Fla. His swashbuckling grocery clerk, Washington Tubbs II, is credited with bringing adventure to the bland funny papers of the '20s when he fell in love with Tango the tiger tamer. Though other artists adopted Tubbs and Friend Captain Easy, Crane collaborated on Navy Pilot Buz until his death...