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...create a new one. In 1973, when the Arabs put an embargo on oil, TIME added a section called Energy, which monitored the fuel shortage, assessed its impact on the economy and explored long-range solutions. When it seemed that the nation was beginning to develop a policy to cope with the problem, the section was phased out, although our readers were kept abreast of every development in other departments, including Nation, Economy & Business and Environment. This week, in the face of the country's recurring fuel crisis, we are reviving the Energy section in order to give...
Please! I can cope with one or the other but not both...
Turner would be inheriting an embattled agency, one that must learn to cope with greater congressional scrutiny and with increased demands from press and public for information about it. How should he deal with these problems? TIME asked five former CIA directors what advice they might have for the new man. Three responded-John McCone, 75, William Colby, 53, and George Bush, 52. Richard Helms, 63, thought it was inadvisable to speak for the record. James Schlesinger, 48, was too absorbed with energy problems as part of the new Carter Administration...
...Buffalo struggled to cope with its emergency, there were unavoidable tragedies. Five people were found frozen to death in their stalled cars; one was within a five-minute walk of numerous warm houses. For 32 hours, no ambulance could move. "We couldn't get out to people," recalled Dr. Joseph Zizzi, "and they couldn't get in to us. I've never seen anything like it." Doctors could only telephone stricken residents or send word through CB operators about what to do for stricken people suffering chest pains and fainting spells. A fire in one house spread...
Besides, the Russians know how to cope with cold. Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad and other major cities all have superefficient subway systems, as well as good if overcrowded bus and streetcar service. The use of private cars is so limited that there are no traffic jams or parking problems. In any case, the streets are swept bone-dry by thousands of snowplows. Giant "snow eater" machines called snegouborki scoop up the snow and dump it onto conveyor belts, which deposit it in trucks, which unload it into the Moskva River. As the first flakes fall, at any hour...