Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Massachusetts law requiring "informed consent" before abortion, now under consideration by the U.S. Court of Appeals, is a silly law and will probably, if it goes into effect, be a destructive one. But what do you expect from any group that calls itself a state legislature? Ask them to tie their shoes--they will muck...
...built these structures before the energy crunch, and most of them--like the over-ventilated Science Center--reflect the lack of energy-efficient planning. But energy costs skyrocketed last spring--this year's budget for energy is half again as large as last year's--the Faculty commissioned a group of experts to propose means for reducing needless consumption in those buildings without affecting the day-to-day life of the University...
...have just begun to reduce energy consumption a la William James. Like its neighbor, the Science Center sports a ventilation system that wastes energy by cooling all incoming air and then heating it back up to the desired temperature. To alleviate that inefficiency, Leahy says, the energy study group recommended installing timers on the building's thermostats to prevent temperatures from hovering indefinitely at inordinately high settings. Because the timers will run out every hour and a half, someone will have to reset them, Leahy says...
Perhaps this highflying group in red was trying to compensate for the apparent lack of energy on the field...
DIED. Harold Edgar Clurman, 78, ebullient, versatile catalyst of the American theater, who attained eminence as a director (Member of the Wedding, The Waltz of the Toreadors), producer, author, teacher and raconteur; of cancer; in New York City. After starting out as an actor, he founded the Group Theater in 1931 to serve as an alternative to Broadway's commercial offerings; for ten years it provided a forum for playwrights like Clifford Odets and William Saroyan, introduced to the American stage the Stanislavsky Method of acting, and nourished such actors as Lee Strasberg, John Garfield, Cheryl Crawford...