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...energy crisis has even spawned one boomtown: Taft, Calif, (pop. 4,285). It is on the rim of the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve, whose wells will have to help fuel the military (seepage 47). Bank deposits are up 35%, and loan requests have increased 25% over last year; 50 new condominiums are being built...
...year round, override temporarily federal, state and local clean-air acts in order to permit more burning of high-polluting coal, and restrict business hours in shopping centers and other enterprises. In addition, the President asked for authority to open up for commercial drilling the naval petroleum reserves at Elk Hills, Calif. All these powers would be given to the President under a bill sponsored by Washington Democratic Senator Henry Jackson. The Jackson bill is likely to pass before Congress adjourns in mid-December...
...addition, Nixon said he would ask Congress for legislation to authorize yearround daylight-saving time, case-by-case relaxation of environmental regulations, imposition of "energy conservation fees or taxes," and approved and funding of exploration, development and production of naval oil reserves at Elk Hills, Calif. The president also endorsed the controversial Alaska pipeline...
Still, McDonald's manages to make its licensees, restaurant managers and burger slingers seem as standardized as its machines and cuisine. Licensees and managers of company-operated restaurants must graduate from a ten-day course at McDonald's "Hamburger University," a gleaming $2,000,000 institution in Elk Grove Village, Ill. The course leads to a Bachelor of Hamburgerology degree, with a minor in French fries. In the field, licensees and managers are incessantly hounded by roving inspectors (called "field supervisors") to make sure that the restaurant floor is mopped at proper intervals and the parking lot tidied...
...intended that there should be roads. The real crunch coming in this country is to articulate an environmental ethic to guide corporate and human conduct -and this speaks basically to the issue that man is part of his environment. The practical problem is that we know exactly how many elk a park can handle ecologically, but not how many people. I have said 'No more physical facilities' until I find out the answer...