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...attempts to deal with it. Energy policy was being made by more than 60 frequently clashing federal departments, offices and agencies. Although oilmen and others had warned for several years of an impending energy shortage, bureaucrats had dithered away the summer before finally adopting an allocation program to parcel out fuel among competing users. Meanwhile, the Government had agonized endlessly and inconclusively about whether to prepare for gasoline rationing...
...economic crisis were not enough, London was hit last week by a new series of letter and car bombings. The first incident occurred when Brigadier Michael O'Cock, 54, an aide-decamp to Queen Elizabeth, opened a parcel at his London home and had part of his thumb blown off. Next day a bomb planted in a car near Westminster exploded shortly before 9 a.m., injuring 54 people. Police attributed the bombings to an apparent last-ditch effort by the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army to sabotage installation Jan. 1 of Northern Ireland's new coalition...
...staunch friends Abplanalp and Rebozo. Nixon had, in effect, sold his friends 80% of the land that he had bought the previous year for roughly 80% of the original purchase price. But he had retained the heart of the estate: the Western White House, plus the choicest parcel of property fronting on the beach. It appeared that Abplanalp and Rebozo had made the President a substantial gift...
Serious students also know that no single scale can capture all of human intelligence. That is why testers work so hard learning and using multiple-factor analysis and other statistical techniques to parcel out the numerous (up to 120, some experts say) components of intelligence. Nevertheless, the one-dimensional I.Q. continues to be the best single predictor of academic performance and one of the best single predictors of social status. The I.Q. is essentially a combination of many of the dimensions of intelligence, just as your height is essentially a combination of the vertical lengths of your feet, your shins...
Much more frustrating has been the other law-and-order man Philadelphia embraced recently, President Nixon. Traditionally a Democratic stronghold, Philadelphia bought, part and parcel, the Nixon version of peace, economics and all-American morality. Each successive revelation of the past six months has hit the one-time supporters of both Rizzo and Nixon hard. When Nixon fired Cox and Ruckelshaus, and Elliot Richardson resigned, the last of Nixon's supporters in Philadelphia turned on him with a vengeance...