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...severe will the slump be? TIME'S economists figure that, from this autumn's high to next year's low, the G.N.P. will decline a total of about 2.4%. That would be much less than the 5.7% plunge...
...lives in rural New London, N.H. (pop. 2,943), Skow offers a modest explanation for his extraordinary foresight. "I was one of the first in town to get a wood stove, in 1973, because I went broke from electric heating bills." Since then, Skow has spent much of his autumn harvesting hardwood on his property, hauling it home in his temperamental pickup truck and burning it efficiently in his five-count 'em, five-woodburning stoves. The trend he pioneered in New London and discusses in this week's story has become a way of life for Skew...
...during a five-minute shower without loss of pressure. A less expensive model, made by the Con-Serv Corp., retails for $13.95 and cuts water flow to only 10.5 gal. Cheapest of all: a plastic "water-miser" insert that costs less than 1? and was mailed this autumn by the Department of Energy free of charge to 4.5 million homeowners throughout the oil-hungry Northeast...
...fixed number of gallons per week, and any driver who did not use his quota could sell his ration coupons on a "white market" for whatever the traffic would bear. Congress rejected a similar scheme last May, and adoption of almost any rationing plan is not expected before next autumn-unless Middle East...
...Western Europe, which would probably be the battleground in a limited nuclear war. Just how the West should respond to the new Soviet threat in Europe will be the chief topic next week when the Defense Ministers and Foreign Ministers of the 15 NATO states gather for their annual autumn meeting in Room 16 at the alliance's three-story headquarters near Brussels...