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Americans use nearly twice as much electric power per capita as the British and six times as much as the world average. Could such power failures happen here? Early warning signals are everywhere. Says James Lydon, a vice president of Boston Edison Co.: "We have a serious power-supply situation in New England. The consumer can expect voltage reductions this summer." Similar brownouts are forecast for New York, Virginia, the Carolinas, Florida, Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. Miami, New York City and Chicago cause "special concern." When the temperatures rise next month, consumers who keep buying more and more electrical appliances...
This time Humphrey gained more than just votes. He will take a healthy share of West Virginia's 35 delegates into the convention. In a state with one of the nation's highest per capita union memberships and minimal anxiety about busing (the black population is only 4%), Humphrey's ties to organized labor and the state's Democratic machinery were sufficient to reward him with a handsome victory...
Even more complex was the conflict of national attitudes. Rich countries generally argued that they could best clean up pollution by themselves, without getting involved in U.N. politics. But the less developed countries felt that pollution was not even a problem. In Upper Volta, for instance, where per capita income is $50 a year and the life expectancy is 32 years, a new factory represents not the potential for environmental damage but hope for a better life. As Brazil's Planning Minister Joao Paulo Velloso remarked in approving a polluting paper mill: "Why not? We have a lot left...
Coffee Grounded. Business has been bad on several fronts. The General Foods empire is built largely on coffee-one-third of its sales come from it-but Americans have been imbibing less of it. During the 1960s, annual per capita consumption dropped from 15.8 Ibs. to 13.4 Ibs., as more Americans turned to soft drinks. Maxim, which is General Foods' freeze-dried coffee, is being outsold by Nestle's Taster's Choice. Says Cook: "To get on the shelf, Nestle's had come in with some very attractive inducements"-price deals for grocers, coupons, vigorous advertising...
...Dutch Socialist, Sicco Mansholt, prefers the phrase gross national utility to G.N.H., but he is getting at the same thing. Mansholt wants Europeans "to examine in what way we would be able to contribute to the establishment of an economic system that would not be founded on maximum per capita growth." His aims include greater opportunity for every European's intellectual and cultural growth, the end to polluting, and the conservation of the Continent's shrinking resources. That is a program many in the U.S. also embrace. Americans-and most Europeans, for that matter-are hardly ready...