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...frets about the decline of his scholarly class. The true intellectual is a dying breed, he implies, and he offers himself as a Maginot Line in its defense...
...exhausted their snow-removal budgets. Highway crews in Connecticut have eaten through a 48,000-ton mountain of road salt near Hartford. "You might get a bucketful if you took a broom and swept the yard," said Edward Archibald, a highway department official. While blizzards battered Boston, the doughty breed of ice fishermen in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts pensively sipped Jack Daniel's, and kept right on angling in their snug lake shacks...
...Breed. Carter plans to cut the size of the present White House staff of 485 by about 30%. Jody Powell, for example, will have nine fewer aides than Ford's press office. Powell already has a reputation for being disorganized; yet with a diminished staff, he will be expected to oversee speechwriting as well as the news operation...
...concern about the incoming staff, Jordan insists that the new breed in the White House will conduct a quiet revolution. The emphasis is on the word quiet. "Before we start tearing things apart," he says, "we're going to see what really needs to be torn apart...
Because the catastrophes were clustered so closely, their drama was heightened. But they may be only a sample of things to come. The transportation of oil by sea has increased enormously in the years since World War II, and oil tankers, once a little-noticed breed of ship, now constitute more than half of the world's merchant-ship tonnage. In U.S. ports, tanker traffic has increased proportionately as the nation has turned heavily to imports to meet its growing thirst for fuel. In 1966 the U.S. imported 940 million bbl. of oil and petroleum products. Now nearly three times...