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...away from voluntarism toward executive action is a welcome start in curbing consumption. The question is whether the Government's efforts are timely and tough enough to give the nation at least an even chance of getting through the winter without a severe economic setback and widespread personal hardship...
...rather than ability to pay. The rich could not buy up all the gasoline, and the poor would be assured of some fuel. Even the most vocal advocates, however, concede that rationing has flaws. Banker David Rockefeller, for example, supports it as "the most equitable" method of sharing the hardship, but adds that "rationing is a very unappetizing and inefficient and undesirable kind of thing...
Haldeman and his wife Jo moved this summer into a $140,000 four-bedroom house in the exclusive Hancock Park section of Los Angeles. Being unemployed works no great hardship, since he has inherited wealth. "Money," says an old family friend, "is not among Bob's worries these days." From all outward appearances, neither is Watergate. Said one guest: "What was missing was any indication from Bob that he might have made a few mistakes in all of this. Instead, it was just a reiteration of his story-with a little reference to having put too much trust...
Stephen A. Wakefield, Assistant Secretary of Interior, said that "there is no assurance whatever that there will be an adequate supply of heating oil" and warned that severe cold could bring genuine hardship. He explained: "I am talking about men without jobs, homes without heat, children without schools...
...Americans prefer that reduced image to the earlier strutting one. Isolationism is no longer a dirty word, as it was two decades ago, though it is not yet an altogether respectable one. John Kennedy's stirring inaugural pledge: "We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty," seems to belong to another world...