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FURNACES: Cleaning a furnace once a year costs about $50 and is well worth it. A layer of soot just one-fiftieth of an inch thick can reduce an oil burner's efficiency by 50%. Radiators should be dusted regularly...
Unfortunately THE LATEST GAME (Why not?) did not merit a spare upper case letter, much less an inch of newspaper copy. The only good thing about the game, if you ask me, was my seat in the coveted pressbox. The shelter, located on the rim of the Bowl, was especially rewarding once the distant mist closed in and turned to drizzle towards the end of the third quarter...
JERUSALEM. Israel has vowed never to give up an inch of Jerusalem, and the Holy City may cause more trouble than the thousands of square miles disputed elsewhere. Both Moslems and Jews, not to mention Christians, have powerful emotional and religious attachments to Jerusalem...
Horace Walpole's correspondence, of course. No one knows it better than Lewis, a remarkably dedicated scholar who has kept the extraordinary project going since its start. As Yale and Lewis celebrated the undertaking's 40th anniversary last week, the edition stood at 37 three-inch-thick dark blue volumes. When the 50th and last volume is published (probably some time in 1978), the edition will contain, with meticulous annotation and indexing, 7,000 letters written or received by Walpole, the witty dilettante and social chronicler of 18th century England...
Lofty Unconcern. Some of the impracticality of this august airport lounge is due to Mies' staff, who with the fervor of acolytes refused to "compromise" an inch on the maestro's plans. Hence the stiff lighting, the patchy services (such as an elevator too small for large-scale paintings) and, worst of all, the absence of any walls to hang pictures on. Three sides of the hall are glass; the fourth is an open internal balcony. Placing screen walls to carry paintings will be a headache for curators-especially since the Texas daylight, flooding through that glass acreage...