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Though cutting wasteful practices can greatly reduce oil consumption without imposing personal hardship or weakening the economy, conservation does have its limits. If the U.S. is to hold on to its industrial lead, massive expenditures of energy will always be necessary. Thus, given the long lead times needed to develop alternate sources of energy (eight to ten years from blueprint to electricity production for a nuclear power plant, for example), the Government also must speed up its efforts to coax more energy from those sources. But here too there are serious problems-technological, environmental, political. At present, the mainspring...
However, Dean Rosovsky said many students use the end of Christmas vacation to study anyway, so he believes the fall reading period could be shortened without causing hardship...
PEOPLE OF KAU by Leni Riefenstahl. 224 pages. Harper & Row. $25. "It was a time of almost intolerable hardship and exertion ... But for my deep-seated urge to pursue the strange and the beautiful, heedless of time, danger and discomfort, these pictures would never have been taken." So trumpets Leni Riefenstahl, whose previous pursuits of the strange included making effective propaganda films for Hitler's Third Reich (Triumph of the Will). Now 74 and a photographer of the black African people of the Sudan, Riefenstahl still prefers to surround herself and her subjects with clouds of Sturm und Drang...
...failures caused concern among administrators, Meyer added. "We were worried about the personal hardship of the minority students who failed, and also that the failures might cast suspicion on the qualifications of all minority students...
...hardship endured by the families harboring hard-core gamblers has fostered two G.A. offshoots, Gam-Anon for addicts' spouses and Gam-A-Teen for their children. Gam-A-Teen sponsors weekly meetings where children as young as nine bolster one another emotionally concerning their parents' plight...