Word: dec
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...moved by the statement of Arthur Krause [Dec. 24], whose daughter was killed at Kent State-"I'll show you; I'll make the system work." Though I deplore the lengths he had to go to get a grand jury investigation, I must thank him for acting on a much neglected moral premise: no system can provide justice (or anything else) automatically There is no substitute for people who care enough to work for what is right. Perhaps Krause personifies Jefferson's dictum. "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance...
...approve of the bill to help the railways [Dec. 24], but you do violence to the facts in characterizing it as "one of the biggest federal giveaways since Congress handed out land for a two-company transcontinental railroad in 1862." As a generation of historians has made abundantly clear, the rate reductions accorded the U.S. by all the federal grants between 1850 and 1871 brought back to the Treasury far more (some claim nine times as much) than the value of the granted lands. If the bill has a similar outcome, both the Treasury and the humble taxpayer will have...
...sound. The report may also identify the specific tape machine in the White House on which the noise was recorded, although the experts cannot know or speculate on who may have been operating the machine at the time. The panel has already expressed doubts in its interim report (TIME, Dec. 24) that the conversation was wiped out when Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's personal secretary, mistakenly activated two switches on a recorder while transcribing the tape. Thus the report is expected to rule out the possibility that the hum resulted from the activities described by her, and will presumably...
That comment indicates how far Simon has come in the month that he has been directing energy policy. When he was named to head the new Federal Energy Office last Dec. 4, his hardest job certainly was not to convince people that there was a problem, but to bring order out of chaos in the Government's attempts to deal with it. Energy policy was being made by more than 60 frequently clashing federal departments, offices and agencies. Although oilmen and others had warned for several years of an impending energy shortage, bureaucrats had dithered away the summer before...
...Voluntary conservation has become far more effective than might have been anticipated in a supposedly self-indulgent nation. A kind of energy chic has taken hold; people really are lowering thermostats, switching off lights and driving more slowly. For the four weeks ending Dec. 28, gasoline demand dropped 8.7% below forecasts. Use of residual oil fell 2.5% below predictions, indicating that industry has also adopted the conservation ethic...