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...down the cost of imported crude, the U.S. driver was enjoying Government-subsidized fuel. Between 1974 and 1978, gasoline prices actually declined 5% in real terms. With no lines at the pump and relatively inexpensive gas, people had no real incentive to buy small cars. Says Transportation Secretary Neil Goldschmidt: "There was an opportunity that was missed in 1973-74 at the time of the embargo to send a message about fuel economy and energy." The renewed interest in big cars peaked in the fall of 1978, just as the Shah of Iran was toppling and the world was heading...
...President had asked them to the White House at the urging of Transportation Secretary Neil Goldschmidt, who has been studying the industry for the past six months as part of the Federal Government's loan guarantee to Chrysler. Goldschmidt's investigation convinced him that the auto manufacturers were in very deep trouble, even discounting the woes of a recession downturn. Two weeks ago, Goldschmidt gave the President a 20-minute graph and chart show to demonstrate the seriousness of Detroit's plight. Concerned, Carter immediately agreed to a meeting with the carmakers and United Auto Workers President...
Power as gluttony permeates a scene in which Mere Ubu (Miriam Goldschmidt in the Lady Macbeth role) entices an army officer (Bruce Myers) to join her and Mère Ubu (Macbeth) in their conspiracy to kill the king. The most ambitious work in the cycle is the least affecting. The Ik is based on Colin Turnbull's 1973 book, The Mountain People, the story of a Ugandan tribe that lost its hunting grounds. Ravaged by starvation, they became beasts, losing all traces of human compassion...
...first Earth Day was celebrated in hundreds of other communities across the nation last week. Celebrations in Washington, D.C., started at dawn with choral music at the Jefferson Memorial, followed by a breakfast rally in Lafayette Park for more than 500 bicycling enthusiasts, among them Transportation Secretary Neil Goldschmidt. At Connecticut College in New London, students unveiled a new windmill that will generate enough power to run the campus radio station. In Boston, environmentalists offered natural foods and lectures on "Tibetan relaxation techniques...
...moved up from her post as an economist for the Federal Reserve to a place on its governing board, and Barbara Newell has been nominated to be Under Secretary of HEW. Last week Carter tapped former Mayor Moon Landrieu of New Orleans to be HUD Secretary and Mayor Neil Goldschmidt of Portland, Ore., to be Transportation Secretary...