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...astonishing news is that the Goose lives. The observer's first impressions are not just of size, but of trimness, tightness and fine lines. This is no "flying lumberyard," as the plane was derisively called during World War II when it was under construction as the prototype for what was to be a fleet of air-freighters. The Goose is an airship, dry-docked for the moment. The sum of the visitor's realizations comes to this: the plane could fly. Given a few weeks for testing and tuning up, it could still...
...example, a grand entrace hall or a cramped tenement staircase--her work seems instead rather devoid of content. The problem may be one of materials. The staircase of the Fogg piece suggests ancient Aztec monuments; it might be more powerful if constructed of weathered stone rather than lumberyard wood. Miss, like many intellectually oriented artists during the sixties, gives priority to idea over aesthetic. In failing to point up the qualities of her sculpture, Miss deprives her pieces of visual and emotional richness...
...growing requests for instructions. Says Michael J. Montalbano, president of Houston's Retail Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association: "People don't know anything about what they're doing." A common novice mistake is to use a piece of string as a measuring tape. Once at the lumberyard, the string starts to stretch and the would-be woodworker either goes back home or ends up with a board that is too long. Thus the black thumb rule at most home-repair centers: $5 worth of advice with every $1 in sales. Last winter Boston's public television...
...Mountain-then patched up when the local wildlife, including a foraging bear, started to nibble on the lines. Getting all the electronic gadgetry installed was no snap. Says Marvin Bader, ABC sports director of special projects: "It's a small town. There's one hardware store, one lumberyard, and for electronics, you've got Radio Shack...
...heating oil saved amounts to only 60 million gal., about a third of the state's annual consumption in recent years. In the meantime, new problems are cropping up. Wood thefts are on the rise: one well-equipped thief got away with a haul of 35 cords from a lumberyard in northern New Hampshire. And there are more and more warnings of pollution from wood smoke. Wood has little sulfur, compared to coal, and burning it adds nothing to the atmosphere's carbon dioxide sum. But participates from inefficient burners can polute in congested areas...