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Edwin Dowell, a spokesman for Kennecott Copper Corp., which has made the highest-grade copper strike ever in Alaska, sounded an even more alarming note. Said he: "Withdrawals of public lands have reached such proportions that our national security already may be jeopardized." Oil companies, already drilling on Alaska's North Slope, want a chance at least to prospect the potential parklands, and loggers are casting avid eyes on Alaska's timber resources...
These findings, says Myers, contradict a recent Rand Corp. study (TIME, June 21) that suggested some alcoholics could safely return to moderate drinking. He points out that even after nine months of abstention the rats preferred alcohol over water. This strongly bolsters his suspicion that alcoholism is due not to social conditioning-as the Rand study implied-but to lasting chemical changes in the brain. Still, Myers, who has also discovered a chemical that reduces alcohol consumption in addicted animals, holds out hope. If alcoholism is really rooted in brain chemistry, a drug treatment may be devised to help...
...fact of auto-buying life: though manufacturers try hard to tout each car model as unique, autos are actually highly standardized products with many interchangeable parts. Ford and Lincoln cars made by Ford Motor Co. share the same engines, as do Dodge, Plymouth and Chrysler cars made by Chrysler Corp. Other automakers have escaped so far the trouble GM has landed in because their advertising has not given consumers quite as strong an impression that each car is sui generis as GM's ads have...
...worst U.S. winters in a century stopped building in many parts of the nation, the market from Brentwood, Calif., to Boston has been rising for months. Builders, mortgage lenders and real estate agents are scrambling to keep up with demand. Says Jerald Ruben, president of General Realty Corp., one of the largest new-home real estate agencies in the Detroit area: "It's the most fantastic thing I've seen in 25 years." Reports Connecticut Realtor Phyllis McGovern: "The momentum has been building for over a year, but I've never seen anything like the last three...
...days as a Strategic Air Command pilot in the 1950s (he still flies around on weekends in his private Cessna). After receiving his M.B.A. from Cincinnati's Xavier University, he worked for General Electric. In 1966 he joined Silver Burdett Co., the publishing arm of General Learning Corp. (then owned jointly by GE and Time Inc.); General Learning was set up to explore new teaching techniques. Two years later Backe was running Silver Burdett, then he became chief executive of General Learning. In 1973 he moved to CBS to head its publishing group; profits rese from $3.2 million that...