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...heater. Most hot-water tanks retain heat for at least eight to ten hours; with electrically operated heaters it is possible to save substantially on hot-water bills by rewarming the water during nighttime or the early morning hours when utility companies offer reduced rates for so-called off-peak usage. Several firms manufacture industrial-grade timer clocks for that purpose. The Tork Corp.'s clock retails for $30 to $40 and is easily wired up by a licensed electrician. Sales of such timers have jumped by 300% over the past two years...
Sheen, who died of heart disease last week at age 84, was American religion's first TV prima donna, complete with studio audience and commercial sponsor. At the peak of his popularity he became the nation's most famous preacher and most celebrated Catholic priest. In that cold war era, Catholicism was far more self-assured than it is now. The six extraordinary TV seasons of "the Microphone of God" made his Church of Rome less threatening to Protestants and Jews in the years just before John F. Kennedy...
...crisis reached its peak this fall, hitting the Globe harder than other area papers. The space allotted to news in the Globe dropped 7 per cent this fall, Giuggio estimated, and pictures of newly married couples were eliminated from the wedding pages of the Sunday section...
Their amoozin' but confoozin' antics were eventually syndicated in 900 newspapers with an estimated readership of 90 million. Li'l Abner inspired a Broadway musical, two movies and a television show, earned Capp $500,000 a year at its peak and introduced Sadie Hawkins Day, the Schmoo, Kickapoo Joy Juice and Lower Slobbovia into the American lexicon...
John P. Huchra, lecturer in Astornomy and a staff member at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA), along with Marc Aaronson of the University of Arizona and Jeremy Mould of the Kitt Peak (Ariz.) National observatory, conducted the research that led to these conclusions. Aaronson attended graduate school at Harvard from...