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...Pipe arguments are the equivalent of pipe dreams. The farther they wander from probabilities, the more fun and fury they produce. Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear were experts at such arguments: Is too much energy being wasted transporting ham and bacon from farm to dinner table? How pleasurable to insist that pigs must fly. Author Jerry Mander's treatise offers precisely this kind of joyous irresponsibility. The world knows that the megabucks technology of television is not, repeat not, going to be eliminated. On his final page, Mander himself acknowledges that he has no idea...
Leader of the grass-roots campaign behind the amendment is Howard Jarvis, 75, a jowly, pipe-smoking ex-businessman who has made tax cutting a personal crusade for the past 15 years (he claims to have blocked 33 different local bond issues). "People just can't handle the burden any more," says he. "This is a government of, by and for the people, not the Government." A year ago, he and his Los Angeles-based United Organization of Taxpayers fell short by 1,200 names of the 500,000 signatures needed to put their property-tax amendment...
...Department of Energy also has approved plans to land Algerian LNG at Lake Charles, La., and LNG from Indonesia in California. It is considering permitting more LNG to be shipped into Texas and, with Canadian approval, New Brunswick, Canada-from which Tenneco would pipe gas into New England. George H. ("Bud") Lawrence, president of the American Gas Association, predicts that by 1985 the U.S. will be importing altogether 1.6 trillion cu. ft. of gas a year in liquid form, or one-tenth of all the gas it will burn then. Chase Manhattan Bank experts put 1985 imports at 2.2 trillion...
...amusement, the Iron Agers told stories, played the lyre, pipe and drums, and competed at "Nine Men's Morris," an ancient board game. Sarah Rockcliff, who dearly missed her afternoon tea, made do with brews of dandelion or mint...
...drilling will give a hypodermic to some ailing economic areas. Pipe, drilling mud and other necessities are being shipped to Davisville, R.I., which will serve as a supply station. The oil companies plan to quarter their drilling crews in Atlantic City. There will be about 50 men to a rig, each earning $700 to $800 a week, and their spending power will create new jobs in hotels, restaurants and stores. "It will be a tremendous advantage for the Atlantic City area," says Louis Dalberth, head of the Southern New Jersey Development Council. "Super," echoes Delaware Governor Pierre du Pont...