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...auto travel or tax credits for homeowners who invest in better insulation or storm windows. In fact, the Administration has little choice but to push conservation harder; there is not much chance of increasing U.S. energy production enough in the next three years or so to reduce the heavy drain that the high price of foreign oil is imposing on the U.S. balance of payments. Ford himself hinted last week that mandatory conservation measures may be necessary if the voluntary steps that he has urged do not fulfill his goal of reducing oil imports by 1 million...
George S. Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, said yesterday, "Democracy in this country is going down the drain and if a few good men like Clark are elected to the Senate we have a chance to save...
...Drain Watergate...
...said Ford's original suggestion of a pardon for all Watergate offenders was "logical" because such a pardon would specify offenses. However, he said the American people would not accept such a broad measure to "wash Watergate down the drain...
...Hillels, the Allies had some information about Lebensborn, but with all records destroyed in the war, it would have taken an enormous effort to locate and return the kidnaped children. Besides, the Hillels say, in the cold war atmosphere of 1946 and 1947, the Allies were reluctant to drain West Germany of potentially valuable citizens, particularly those who would have to be returned to Communist-held lands. After exhaustive research, the Hillels concluded that Himmler's plan to build a Nordic superrace was a failure on its own terms. "A superrace?" asks a German nurse who cared for children...