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...strongest series of messages that an American President has made to the public since World War II," says Assistant Managing Editor Ray Cave of Jimmy Carter's opening "energy week" address. As the President returned again and again to the air waves and as the debate about his energy proposals grew more heated, we decided that the scope of the President's plan and the public's response required a cover story-our third on the energy crisis since April 4. Cave, along with Senior Editor George Church and Associate Editor James Atwater, assembled a team...
After the wheel was invented, some cave dwellers undoubtedly complained that ruts would ruin the footpaths. Many millenniums later, in the 1840s, farmers of New York's Suffolk County rebelled against another recent invention; they tore up railway tracks, put the torch to depots and caused wrecks by loosening rail ties. The iron horse was evil, they complained; its sparks set fields afire, its bells and noisy clatter shocked cows into withholding milk, and its soot soiled laundry. Decades later, the first autos were denounced for scaring horses and for spewing objectionable fumes...
...caves that served as their home, Mao once discovered that Chiang Ch'ing had bedded down on a heap of bedbugs. Mao formally renamed the cave "Bedbug Headquarters" and helped start an "extermination campaign "against the vermin. Another time, during a difficult mountain march in a driving rainstorm, she was wearing the only rain cape in the entire army. Though it was soggy, she offered it to him-and he reluctantly accepted. (This, observes Witke, was a personal victory for her.) A little later, he removed a thermos flask of liquor from his belt and silently passed...
Chavez aides claim that the Teamsters feared they would lose a jurisdictional dispute now pending before the California agricultural labor relations board and thus have to surrender 50,000 workers to Chavez involuntarily. But the real reason for the Teamsters' cave-in seems to be public relations: the scandal-scarred Teamsters are under heavy attack. An investigation of the union's Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, often accused of funneling money to the Mafia, is still under way at the U.S. Department of Labor. This week, Federal officials will announce a plan forcing all Teamster...
...Ball. Living in the round is not exactly new. Cave dwellers, Kurds, birds, bees, Bedouins, medieval Irish monks, Indians, Eskimos, Zulus, lighthouse keepers and leprechauns, to name a few, have tried it. But it took the genius of R. Buckminster Fuller, now 81, whose brilliantly engineered structures were used as radar domes on the arctic DEW line after World War II, to demonstrate conclusively that for the material used they are the strongest and most efficient way to enclose space. Moreover, they cover maximum volume with minimum surface area. Ergo, it takes less energy to heat or cool a spherical...