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Flak From Friends. Even the industry's former best friends in Washington now find it politic to make anti-oil noises. House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, who opened hearings on oil taxes last week, says he has told oilmen that they receive unwarranted special preferences. The Nixon Administration...
Sir / Little children walking to school in the dark? No, mothers are driving them. This is saving energy? No matter how Congress legislates, there are only a limited number of hours of daylight. We on the western edge of a time zone are using more electricity to cope with the...
Perhaps 80% of the huge increase will ultimately return to industrial nations in the form of investments or orders for capital and consumer goods. But the oil companies, which calculate their present profit at only 1? per gal. of gasoline, will raise prices soon in Europe and Japan, probably by...
The Government's official policy is to pay wages comparable to those in private industry; every year a survey establishes how far federal salaries lag and Congress legislates to narrow the gap -the following year. Thus the average federal worker's pay trails at least twelve months behind...
The HUC has always been powerless, by anyone's standards. Its president, Stephan Kaplan '69, says, "We will never be a legislative body, only an advisory one." Unfortunately, most people have not had Kaplan's experience of knocking futilely on the doors of power. These people, including some members of...