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...team of 750 analysts and experts directed by the Federal Energy Administration. They employed a gigantic computer model to calculate the effects on energy use of a bewildering variety of supply, price and policy changes. The Blueprint will not be released until next month, but TIME Correspondent Samuel R. Iker has learned many of its details, and they contain some surprises...
...pace of stories in the energy field used to be almost leisurely," recalls Correspondent Sam Iker, whose reporting on Federal Energy Office Chief William Simon forms the nucleus of this week's cover story. As TIME'S resident expert in Washington on environment and energy stories since 1971, Iker has covered the gradual escalation of fuel-oil crunches, gasoline pinches, allocation battles and embargoes, and watched the subject of energy explode from a neglected issue into a vast and complex national crisis. "The intricacies of the oil business alone are mind-boggling," he points out, "not to mention...
When TIME'S Energy section made its debut last November, Iker notes, "The pace became even more hectic." One Saturday night six weeks ago, guests began arriving at Iker's home in Chevy Chase, Md., for an 8 o'clock dinner party. "I had just finished reporting for a full-page box on John Love, Nixon's chief energy adviser. As the first guest arrived, the phone rang, and I was notified that Love was to be replaced by Simon. As we passed by each other at the front door, I told my guests to help...
Collaborating with Iker on that last-minute effort was Associate Editor George J. Church, a TIME Business writer since 1969 who wrote this week's cover story with the help of Reporter-Researchers Bonita Siverd and Gail Perlick. Like former Bond Trader William Simon, Church got his start on Wall Street, first as a correspondent and later as a front-page editor for the Wall Street Journal (which is singled out in this week's Press section as one of the ten best newspapers in America). No skeptic about the reality of the energy crunch, Church...
...controls prices for gasoline, heating oil and other petroleum products. That should end the type of bureaucratic delay that recently held up for three months an urgently needed mandatory allocation plan for fuels-a plan that, significantly, was originally drafted by Simon. As Simon explained to TIME Correspondent Sam Iker...