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...probably as many as there ever have been. Nearly 2,000 of them are card-carrying dowsers, all of whom belong to a group that is now incorporated under Vermont state law as a full-fledged "nonprofit, educational and scientific society." The organization's elders claim no special credit for the dowsing revival. Nor do they cite a renaissance of American gullibility. Their official explanation: dowsers came in demand again with the exodus to the suburbs after World War II and the need for more drinking water. Commenting on skeptics, Norman Leighton, of Portland, Me. says: "If thickheaded clods...
Estimates vary wildly on what the bill will eventually accomplish. The Senate Energy Committee figures that the cost of gas to consumers will increase about 10% a year. Consumer groups that fought the bill claim there will be a 353% jump in prices between 1977 and 1985. The Department of Energy expects an annual increase in gas production of 2 trillion cu. ft.; the congressional budget office estimates an additional .7 to .8 trillion cu.ft. a year; consumer groups that favored the bill say no increase at all will occur. Both the Senate Energy Committee and DOE predict that...
Opponents of the Nestle Corporation claim that Nestle's actions produce a rise in the infant mortality rates in Third World countries...
Ferrick said the Western press, which Solzhenitsyn attacked for irresponsibility, could claim credit for such important investigations as the Watergate scandal...
...from view. Its author was Henry Yorke, a wealthy young Oxford student who went on to write eight more novels under the pseudonym Henry Green. Although he never achieved widespread popularity before his death in 1973, Green did not labor in quite the obscurity that his circle of admirers claim; his novel Loving, published in the U.S. in 1949, flirted briefly with the bestseller list. But even his most dedicated fans have had trouble seeing Blindness, which has remained generally unavailable for 52 years...