Word: doomsday
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...much time remains? Nobody can tell for cer tain, but many specialists cite the figures of M. King Hubbert, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, who predicts that 90% of all oil and gas will be gone by 2035, about 90% of all coal by 2300. Before that doomsday comes, most experts believe, technology can provide alternate sources of power, notably through nuclear energy. In the meantime, however, fuel supplies are al ready becoming scarcer, harder to dig out and thus more expensive. The focal point of this energy crisis-the point at which demand is growing fastest...
...Nixon's doomsday machine churned onward toward possible destruction yesterday as the most intense air and naval strikes in years hit North Vietnamese targets and for the first time mines were sowed off seven ports. As Nixon draws his hard line and dares the other nuclear powers to cross it, the Vietnamese people must endure the effect of an increased aerial and naval bombardment which has already made much of their country uninhabitable. People around the world continue to hold their breath in anticipation of the Russian and Chinese responses to Nixon's provocation: they know their lives are subject...
...Cowboys rolled over Miami like an automated machine. In the battle of the quarterbacks, the Dolphins' Bob Griese proved no match for the Cowboys' Roger Staubach. Griese, who gave up a costly fumble and an interception, was stymied at every turn by the Cowboys' tenacious Doomsday Defense. Staubach, meanwhile, piloted the Cowboys' ball-control offense to perfection. Sending Running Backs Thomas, Walt Garrison and Calvin Hill through holes as broad as a boulevard, he set up a pair of neatly executed scoring passes. Final score: Dallas 24, Miami...
...rooms within the commune, but single members are rigidly separated in male and female dormitories. Letters to and from home are censored by the elders. Many of the Children insist that the rigorous life is necessary to prepare themselves for the Communist takeover that they expect to come before doomsday...
...members, "either sucking up this excessive religion or spitting it out," but he also allows that "they are totally without guile, without games. They really believe. They are prepared to die." So far, however, the question is whether they are prepared to live more fully in the world if doomsday does not come as expected...