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Only two groups--the Harvard-Radcliffe "Wood Drive and Hillel House--had contacted him about the second information packet. Epps said, and by avoiding the use of 6000 additional envelopes Harvard saved about...
...Walt Humphrey, a transmission worker at Ford's Louisville assembly plant: "I'm willing to show the American people that we are ready to sacrifice. It might swing them back to American products." GM workers, however, appear to be taking a harder line. Says Pete Kelly, a wood-model maker at the GM tech center in Warren, Mich., and a leader of dissident U.A.W. members: "If we give concessions now, they will automate that much faster and there will be more workers out of jobs. It started at Chrysler. We want to stop...
...Smiths do not regard themselves as members of an elite alternate-energy fraternity, as do many users of airtight wood stoves and expensive solar heating systems. But they are joining a new energy movement. Roughly 3 million Americans will be turning on kerosene heaters in their houses this winter. By 1985, 8 million to 10 million U.S. households are expected to own kerosene heaters to keep cold out and heating bills down. The new machines do not replace central heating but are used as space heaters to warm up just one or two rooms...
...York City, John Bohlman, 90, and his wife Rose, 86, had plenty of heating oil in their furnace. But the fuel pump broke; the couple, both deaf mutes, were unable to signal neighbors for help and froze to death. Near Pendleton, S.C., Margaret Swaney's new wood-stocked heater malfunctioned and started a fire; her three teen-age children were killed. Herbert Ahlstedt, 54, of Level Plains, Ala., was knocked unconscious by falling, ice-heavy tree limbs. Face down in the snow, he froze and died...
...paid $3 million to a group of Brazilian families for approximately 6,000 sq. mi. of dense rain forest in the country's remote Amazon region. He then set in motion a bold plan for developing the area to help meet anticipated world shortages of food, lumber and wood pulp for papermaking...