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...1950s (he still flies around on weekends in his private Cessna). After receiving his M.B.A. from Cincinnati's Xavier University, he worked for General Electric. In 1966 he joined Silver Burdett Co., the publishing arm of General Learning Corp. (then owned jointly by GE and Time Inc.); General Learning was set up to explore new teaching techniques. Two years later Backe was running Silver Burdett, then he became chief executive of General Learning. In 1973 he moved to CBS to head its publishing group; profits rese from $3.2 million that year to $24.3 million in 1976. Right after becoming...
...Time Inc. Chairman Andrew Heiskell, Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and other Time Inc. officers served on the rostrum to help organize the debates. Associate Editor David Tinnin, who regularly follows the Energy beat, talked extensively with participants at the conference, then returned to New York City to write about the meeting. His story accompanies this week's report on the President's energy program in the Nation section's assessment of Carter's first three months in the White House...
This year's energy conference is not the first that Time Inc. has sponsored. Four years ago, we convened a similar meeting to discuss the already apparent shortage. Six months after the Arab oil embargo in 1973, we held a second conference, recognizing that in a few short years, the energy crisis had become one of the greatest challenges facing the free world: How do we continue our present course, and grow in the future, as the fuels that power our lives disappear...
...that measured, dispassionate manner, James R. Schlesinger, who is President Carter's Mr. Energy, spelled out the Administration's approach to the nation's looming energy crisis. He was speaking to members of Time Inc.'s third energy conference. The timing could hardly have been more propitious. Only two weeks before President Carter's self-imposed deadline for the announcement of a comprehensive energy program, 88 leaders from the Government and virtually every energy industry and interest group gathered in Williamsburg, Va. The speeches and discussions provided a unique preview of the debate that Carter...
...Unquestionably, coal and uranium must be the dominant fuels for electricity generation well into the next century," declared Clyde A. Lilly Jr., president of Birmingham, Ala.-based Southern Company Services, Inc. He predicted that electricity would become an ever more vital form of power. "The electric commuter car," he said, "is almost certain to play an important role in the future...