Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prospect worries the makers because modern compact machines are noisier than they used to be, and the engineers are not sure what to do about it. Noisier still are the so-called heat pumps, those outside installations housing large fans to fill the house with heated air in winter, cooled air in summer. Heat pumps recently installed at a housing development at Irvington, N.Y., so overheated nearby residents with their throbbing roar 'that the town banished devices developing more than 45 decibels as measured at the nearest property line...
Geneticist Bentley Glass incited the fuss last winter when he suggested that human bodies began balding as soon as warm clothes ended the need for tufted torsos. Scoffing, one writer charged Glass with Lamarckianism, the discredited 1809 theory of French Naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck, who argued that giraffe necks grew long because the animals preferred eating treetop leaves and that such acquired characteristics could be passed on to offspring. In rebuttal, Glass argued that man's use of fire as well as clothing changed his environment enough "to make hairiness an inconsequential feature, except on the more exposed parts...
Since skiers spend so much of their time upside down anyhow, it made a certain sort of sense to hold the World Alpine Ski Championships last week in Portillo, Chile - where it was the middle of winter, and temperatures dipped to -4°. It was hardly surprising, either, that the French turned up in force and swept practically everything in sight. Who stays in Paris in August, except tourists...
...hopes ran high, too, for a team that Coach Bob Beattie said was in the "best condition ever." Vermont's Billy Kidd, 23, was back in form, recovered from an ankle injury that had forced him out of competition after a series of spectacular victories in Europe last winter. And the rest of the U.S. squad had been training steadily for a full year - at a cost of some...
Home for a while will be a handsome rented beach house at Sands Point on Long Island Sound. After she unwinds, she will have to face up to hunting for larger winter quarters. She will also be taking instruction in natural childbirth. Inescapably, she frets constantly about herself. She admits that her private world is too small. She knows from nothing about Viet Nam or black power. About all she reads regularly are her own reviews and (since she made the best-dressed list) pertinent clips culled from Women's Wear Daily...