A sizzling way to beat high home-heating costs Fed up with heating oil costs that ran to $1,000 a season even in relatively temperate Virginia, Betsy and Bob Smith of Richmond last fall invested $220 in a portable kerosene heater. From the day they turned it on in their split-level home, their average oil consumption for central heating began plunging, down to 77 gal., vs. 180 to 200 normally. Says Betsy: “It’s working like a dream.

The list of famous lefties inevitably goes back deep into history, to Charlemagne or Leonardo da Vinci. But it was only in the last few decades that being left-handed ceased to be a real problem for many people, and instead became something that could be celebrated. As TIME explained in 1969, “southpaws, gallock-handers, chickie paws and scrammies” were seen as sinister—literally, since the word means “left”—for centuries. “In the Middle Ages, for instance, the left-hander lived in danger of being accused of practicing witchcraft,” the article explained.

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Martha Monica Potter Martha Monica Potter Frank Rufus Sewell Daniel Tom Hollander Laurence Joseph Fiennes Dr. Pedersen Ray Winstone A clever idea doesn’t fire on all cylinders in “Martha – Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence,” an upbeat romantic comedy about an American gal’s entanglements with three Brits in London.

Actor in television, film, and on stage, as well as a singer and director. Before Fame He had his first gig performing on a variety show in 1966 on PTV. Trivia He is on the Amazing Pakistanis list. Family Life He and his wife raised three children. Associated With Akhter was in an Urdu adaptation of the Dustin Hoffman movie Tootsie. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7p63MqKysmpmnwamwwLKqZ5ufonyxsc6po55nnaS2r3nApJ%2BtnaJjtbW5yw%3D%3D