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...they gave Washington Correspondent Don Sider the task of finding out in advance the details of the emerging program. Naturally, Sider went to see Presidential Assistant James Schlesinger, the subject of this week's cover. Just as naturally, Mr. Energy was not about to hand over the blueprint of a policy he was just then building. Though he gave Sider several hours of his time and was, says Sider, "patient, courteous, open and helpful," Schlesinger, like his aides, declined to reveal any details...
Hill has lined up a meeting with Bok this afternoon in which he will espouse his blueprint to give the hoop program impetus toward what will hopefully become a snowballing movement of support...
...time to apply his controversial zero-budgeting procedure in drawing up the fiscal 1978 budget. This will require every federal department to justify all its programs, not just new expenditures, every year. Zero budgeting will be employed in the fiscal 1979 budget, Carter's first complete fiscal blueprint for the nation...
...also a writer of mysteries and high-class potboilers (Friends in Low Places) that dwell on sex and intrigue among the upper classes. But he has been a dedicated Trollopian since his undergraduate days at Cambridge. Nevertheless, he spent six months "sweating and gibbering" before he found the right blueprint for the series, which he suggested. He would throw out Trollope's character A as boring and superfluous -only to watch her turn up 700 pages later as someone essential to the denouement. Character B would be discarded, then put quickly back when it was obvious that...
...imposing personal hardship or weakening the economy, conservation does have its limits. If the U.S. is to hold on to its industrial lead, massive expenditures of energy will always be necessary. Thus, given the long lead times needed to develop alternate sources of energy (eight to ten years from blueprint to electricity production for a nuclear power plant, for example), the Government also must speed up its efforts to coax more energy from those sources. But here too there are serious problems-technological, environmental, political. At present, the mainspring of the Government drive is the Energy Research and Development Administration...