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Jaideh said affluent countries naturally waste a tremendous amount of energy resources every year, and therefore must adopt energy policies which are oriented toward a conservation of these resources...
Though surprisingly subdued so far, regionalism is an obstacle of unknown seriousness to the Carter program. Protests Pat Wakefield, mayor of Hunter's Creek, an affluent Houston suburb: "There's nothing fair about controlled gas prices at the same time as those people in the East and North are refusing to permit drilling in their states...
...energy-will have to change their attitudes substantially, and their life-styles somewhat, too. To learn how one representative American suburb uses energy, and how it has responded to Carter's call for conservation, TIME Correspondent Patricia Delaney went to Hinsdale, Illinois. Then, to see how another affluent suburb takes a different approach to the same problem, TIME Correspondent Barrett Seaman visited Rösrath, outside of Cologne, West Germany. Their reports...
...uses for beepers are legion. Children in affluent La Jolla, Calif., get beeped home to dinner. Guests at Manhattan's Statler Hilton who expect important calls can rent beepers for $5 a day, then go sightseeing. By June, a caller will be able to beep from New York to Chicago to Los Angeles via satellite. A Boston narcotics peddler used top-line $300 models to keep track of his 13 pushers-until he went to jail and the pushers made off with the pagers. The users most thoroughly hooked on pocket page calls may be ... well, hookers. The gadgets...
Flash is what affluent rockers want, insists Decorator Phyllis Morris. Rock stars love trendy Phyllis because her furnishings-zebra rugs, Borsalino mirrors, St. Regis candelabra and Corsican coffee tables-are loud, lacquered and overpriced. "Rock people are just like the movie stars of the '40s," says la dame du flash. "It's exciting to watch them spend money. They're looking for something that says they've arrived. They're creative, emotional, uninhibited. And in their homes you'll find an atmosphere of uncontrolled funk...