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...three days at his 688-acre ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains, he was asked if he would be making his final Cabinet decisions. "Oh no," the President-elect replied, "I think I'll be doing work on the brush and the woodpile." And so he did: chopping wood with a heavy double-edged ax and riding horseback every day with his wife Nancy...
There have also been incidents in the Midwest. Earlier this semester two cross burnings occurred at Purdue University in Indiana. One, made of wood, was planted on the lawn of a black fraternity house; the other, shaped of computer cards, was taped to the dormitory window of two black students and set afire. At Ohio's Kent State University, black student organization material on campus bulletin boards was defaced...
Perplexed? So were they, until someone disappeared and emerged moments later with what had to be the unabridged edition of the parliamentary rules. Then the Dean of Students and the Dean of the College put their heads together, and the Dean of the College did an Evelyn Wood job on the "paragraphs pertaining" and announced that the substitute motion should be considered first...
...share of the heating market. It is estimated that gas has 55% of that market, down 1% in the past five years, while oil's slice has slipped from 23% to 20%. Electricity heats 17% of the nation's homes, with the remainder warmed by solar power, wood and propane gas. Last year 365,000 homes were converted to gas, mostly in the patch of Northern states stretching from Maine to Michigan, where oil usage is heavy; this year almost 400,000 homes are expected to switch. As much as 95% of the changeovers are conversions from...
When it comes to bizarre ways of coming to grips with a shortage of profitably infected molars, nothing can top California. In addition to Dr. Schmidt, there is Dr. Terry Pratt of Alameda, who has taken an old bungalow and created a homey office complete with stained glass, eucalyptus-wood paneling, brass fixtures and white lace window curtains. Dr. Ronald Konopaski of San Francisco says that he has "tried to create an image similar to a beauty salon." The doctor's dental salon offers clients a rainbow-colored printed menu of services with fees. They...