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...from 2,500 to 68,000-come dressed in similar garments of vulnerability. When Psychiatrist David Morrison flashes a cartoon slide showing a mouse with a defiant middle finger raised toward a fierce owl, there is silence for a moment. Then William Durham, the slight, dapper, boyish mayor of Burlington...
...summits, TIME correspondents in the U.S. were sounding out federal policymakers, oil executives, striking independent truckers and hard-pressed motorists. Boston's Jeff Melvoin got the closest view of long lines and short tempers by spending a day at Jim Harrington's Exxon station in nearby Burlington, Mass...
...Burlington, Mass., woman--a Peace Corps volunteer--was raped recently by members of this notorious Guardia, the first time that a Peace Corps volunteer had ever been raped by members of the armed forces of the host country. The incident, though not reported in the American press, was widely reported in the Nicaraguan papers. The woman explained that normally she would not have made the incident public, but "it happens every day to Nicaraguan women...
More than 150 New England industrial firms have already gone over to wood power. The Burlington, Vt., municipal electric department is one of the converts. The changeover, which involved refitting one of the plant's three coal-fired boilers, was made 18 months ago at a cost of only $25,000. The expense was negligible because most of the work was handled by the plant's engineers in their spare time. Explains General Manager Robert Young: "I have friends at IBM who say that for $25,000 they'd probably still be hiring consultants. Well...
...successful is the Burlington project that the city's 45,000 residents have approved a $40 million bond issue to build a 50-megawatt wood-fired generator to supply most of the area's electricity needs beginning in 1983. Says Alan Turner, head of Vermont's wood-energy program: "There are lots of questions about nuclear power in people's minds. Moreover, New England is at the end of the line for coal transportation and completely at the mercy of foreign oil price fluctuations. Wood, however, is right here, and the technology is proven...