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...personality if not in rank, just about everyone agrees, in fact, that Richard is far better suited for the chairmanship than the rather remote, moody and brittle Crosland. The son of a coal-mining engineer, Richard was born in South Wales, where he became a Labor supporter, as he puts it, "almost by the time I had learned to talk." He won a scholarship to Cheltenham, a leading private school, then went on to Oxford. He entered Parliament in 1964. When he lost his seat in 1974, Harold Wilson dispatched him to the U.N., where his quick repartee, enormous stamina...
...cars is a relatively recent phenomenon. Patented in the 1890s by Rudolf Diesel, a brilliant German engineer who died in 1913, the engine, in its various types, burns almost any hydrocarbon: alcohol blends, benzene, kerosene, even lightweight heating oil. Rudolf Diesel himself fueled an early experimental model with powdered coal. Another advantage: diesels do away with the gasoline engine's frequently troublesome spark ignition system. Diesel fuel is injected into the cylinders and made to explode by compression...
...energy policy, the President plans to urge the expansion of nuclear-power production and the development of offshore reserves and coal through Government-backed financial incentives and the lifting of certain environmental restrictions. To cut back consumption and give the companies the means and incentive to develop new domestic sources, Ford would continue to advocate the complete deregulation of oil and gas prices. This policy is sure to be fought by the Democratic Congress...
...spectacular disaster that befell the coal industry after World War II should have served as a warning. Railroads and ships switched to diesel. Homeowners converted their furnaces to natural gas or fuel oil. Mines closed, and those that stayed open watched the price of their coal drop to $2.95 per ton. But who remembers the bust now that the boom is back? Today coal supplies one-fifth of the nation's total energy requirements. This elementary fact, says Caudill, permitted mineowners to run up the price from $9 to $35 per ton in 50 days after the Arab...
...MORE COGENT CASE for recruiting and accepting more socio-economically disadvantaged students into medical schools can be made on moral and utilitarian grounds. It is simply wrong to discriminate against people based on their social backgrounds. And society would benefit from admitting more of the rural poor since and coal miners' kids have heard the cry for a different kind of medical care. As John Mills, president of the national fund for medical education, wrote in his 1971 report to the directors...