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HOME INSULATION. Since an estimated 40% of house heat escapes through faulty flues, ill-fitting windows and porous walls, tax rebates would be offered to homeowners who insulate their residences. The amount: a 25% personal income tax credit on the first $800 outlay, or a tax saving of $200, and a lesser percentage on the next $1,400. For householders unable to raise the cash, utility companies will be required to offer installment-plan insulation programs for their customers...
...correspondents are noted for their prodigious outlay of energy-but little of it is ever wasted. When TIME's editors decided that the national energy problem was too pressing for us to wait for Jimmy Carter's new energy program, promised for April 20, they gave Washington Correspondent Don Sider the task of finding out in advance the details of the emerging program. Naturally, Sider went to see Presidential Assistant James Schlesinger, the subject of this week's cover. Just as naturally, Mr. Energy was not about to hand over the blueprint of a policy...
With an all-star cast-Robert Redford, James Caan, Laurence Olivier, Liv Ullmann, Ryan O'Neal, Gene Hackman, Michael Caine and Sean Connery -Producer Joseph Levine claims to have already received enough backing from eager distributors to cover his $25 million outlay for A Bridge Too Far. The saga of the abortive Allied attempt to cross the Rhine in 1944 by parachuting 35,000 men behind the lines into Holland, the movie employed an army all by itself. Besides the stars, Director Richard Attenborough recruited 100 young actors in London and trained them to behave and, supposedly, even think...
...million, and some Congressmen began to get fidgety; eventually most concluded that such a sum was not really unreasonable for so intricate an investigation. Finally, last month, Sprague proposed $6.5 million-for just the first year-and the House Select Committee gulped. Nonetheless the committee unanimously approved the outlay, and the full House is expected to do so this month...
...environmental, political. At present, the mainspring of the Government drive is the Energy Research and Development Administration, a fledgling agency set up in January 1975 to pull together the loose jumble of federal energy research programs. But ERDA's budget for fiscal 1977 totals only $3.1 billion. That outlay, in the view of many experts, is nowhere near enough...