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...swampy, flat, coal-coated zone of smokestacks and smelters. But there are those who love it and want to share it. In May, the Local Residents' Organization (L.R.O.) of the much-maligned Ruhrgebiet (Ruhr region) will offer its first tourist "adventure" through West Germany's industrial heartland. The idea, says the L.R.O.'s Dietrich Springorum, is to shed the region's grimy stereotype and show "that it is not only fascinating but has its beauty spots...
...will switch from making heating oil to gasoline much later than usual. Construction of nuclear power plants is far behind schedule; only one was licensed last year. That could lead to brownouts and blackouts in five years or so if utilities cannot find greater supplies of gas, oil and coal. Even so, lights blaze wastefully in New York and many other cities...
...elements likely to turn up in the new plan have been discussed-though, alas, not acted on-for years. Schlesinger's group already has general principles sketched out. It is clear that the policy will focus on what Washington has begun to call "the two Cs": conservation and coal. First, tough conservation measures must be taken so that the nation can buy time to develop well-considered alternatives to oil and gas as fuels. Next, a determined effort must be made to get many power plants to switch to coal, so that the U.S. can reduce its dependence...
Generation after generation, the great players of Alberta like Johnny Bucyk, the Colvile brothers, and Alex "Killer" Kaleta learned their hockey in the small wheat growing and coal mining towns around Edmonton like Sherwood Park to the East, Red Deer to the South, St. Albert to the North, LeDuc, and Beaumont. If they didn't make it to the NHL, they played for the old local sime-pro teams: the Edmonton Flyers, the Olds Elks, and the Crow's Nest Pass Lascars...
...energy. In his fireside chat, he pointed out that the amount of energy now being wasted is greater than the total amount that is imported (in 1977 the U.S. is expected to import $41 billion more in petroleum products than it exports). Carter also called for more development of coal in "an environmentally sound way" and further research on solar energy. On atomic energy, he was cautious. He asked for "strict safeguards on necessary atomic energy production." Later in February, he pledged, he will ask Congress for help in combining the some 50 federal agencies involved in energy. "Utility companies...