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...Superiority Approach. Prerequisite: before you arrive in Cambridge, compile a list of things that you have done or that your family owns that are sure to impress anybody. A subdivision of this is Intellectual One-Upmanship. If your new roommate has read all of Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, come right back at him with your A.P. scores (fours are dull), or your knowledge of physical chemistry. Lying is permissable, because no one will ever know the difference if you can effectively fake it. Make pronouncements about everything. Wear a lot of preppie clothes; LaCoste shirts...
...largest savings will have to come from a combination of more tax incentives for buying home insulation, wood-burning furnaces and other oil-conserving devices, and much stiffer mandatory conservation rules. A number of innovative companies, including Du Pont, A T & T and General Motors, have reduced their energy use relative to their output by 17% to 30% since the Arab oil embargo of 1973; yet many more firms have gone on giddily wasting energy. Consider the beneficial effects of a 20% surtax on the commercial use of electricity: skyscrapers that are lit up all night long and advertising signs...
...Richardson) is a promiscuous boulevardier who swings both ways. Louise's former husband (John Cunningham) is a likable fellow, pugilistic only during the marital mismatch. Estelle's man (Graham Beckel) lives in an orphanage of the mind except that he now has a Du Pont to bail...
Marvin F. Diedrich Fond du...
...instead, and rising demand would encourage companies to boost output and build more plants. Says the bill's author, Pennsylvania Democrat William Moorhead: "The need for this approach is clearly established, and private enterprise is just not powerful enough to go it alone." Adds Irving Shapiro, chairman of Du Pont chemicals: "During war we declare a national emergency, pass a war powers act and give the President the authority to do things necessary to win the war. Now we should pass an energy powers act, to give the President the power to set aside unnecessary regulations and barriers...