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...supposed to be rationed. In fact, rationing is an excuse for black-marketeering. Clergymen in charge of militiamen's committees run the rackets. Their agents sell a pack of cigarettes at $5, about five times the official price, under the counter. Car owners, restricted to 40 liters (10.56 gal.) of gasoline a month, pay about $21 for an extra 20-liter (5.28 gal.) ration coupon, a hefty addition to the $7.50 cost of the gasoline. Every child is allowed a ration of 1 lb. of powdered milk a week, which is not enough. For the rest, parents have...
...STORY and the characters are not new: Young rogue decides to prove himself a man in the military. He faces adversity in the form of a sadistic drill sergeant, oppressive service regulations and constant self-doubt. He encounters attractive, good-hearted local gal. She falls for him at the very first base mixer. Commitments, responsibilities and emotions cloud what had once been his crystal-clear me-first world view. The goal is in sight, but the her--wonders whether it's all just another pointless game, whether he should just let them all go to hell--like he's always...
...roiled again. This time the battle involves not gunfire or frigates, but skillful political and legal maneuvering. The issue, discussed at some length last week during the 21st Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Governors' Conference in Des Moines, is control of the water. Containing some 67 trillion gal. of fresh water, enough to cover all of the U.S. to a depth of 10 ft., the Great Lakes are a priceless asset to those who live and work along their shores. More than 24 million people in the U.S. and Canada depend on them for drinking water. Industries in both...
Inflation will be easier to tame if Western nations work to encourage more energy conservation and new production. While most European governments have levied gasoline taxes of $1 per gal. or more, the U.S. has flinched at raising its federal 4?-per-gal. tax even slightly. "Conservation of gasoline in the U.S. should be pushed a bit faster and further than market prices alone have done," says James McKie, professor of economics at the University of Texas. He supports a federal gasoline tax of at least 10% of the price of a gallon...
...south on the Persian Gulf. Within twelve months, enough trailers to house 13,000 workers had been plopped onto the sandscape. A 13,000-ft. runway, capable of receiving the largest of wide-body aircraft, was built from scratch in less than a year. By 1980, 5 million gal. of fresh water daily were flowing ashore from a Japanese-built desalination plant that rose six stories above the warm Persian Gulf waters...