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...fashionable to talk about the need to cut back sharply or even ration the use of energy−but what would that really be like? As both an experiment and a symbol, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson encouraged the 7,500 citizens of Burlington to dim their lights, turn down their thermostats and curb their cars for two days last week. The aim: to make Burlington "Energy Conservation City, U.S.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Operation Brownout | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

Women's attitudes range from "contented" at Winthrop to "uncomfortable" at Leverett, where there is a 9:1 ration of men to women, the guide states. Leverett women said they felt pressure to conform to traditional female roles and indicated there was some feeling that women were given preference in room selection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen to Publish Guide to Houses Discussing Images, Women's Feelings | 3/9/1973 | See Source »

...issued personal supplies-a cup, toothpaste, tooth brush, shirts, trousers, blankets, a teapot. The food was opulent enough by P.O.W. standards-sweet milk and half a loaf of bread in the morning, thick potato or cabbage soup for lunch, along with soybean cakes, or fish cakes, and sometimes a ration of pork. Later in the day a third meal was served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: P.O.W.S: A Celebration of Men Redeemed | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

...also castigated his biggest constituency, Chile's workers, chiding the miners for "acting like a bunch of monopolistic bankers" in their wage demands, and criticized bureaucrats for failing to improve government efficiency. To curb the groggy effects of alcohol on the workers, Allende last week threatened to ration beer. No teetotaler himself, Allende said: "The housewives of Chile will erect a monument in my honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: An Economy Besieged | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

...breath rattling, a tiny hole in his shirt pocket. Holstering his .45, the lieutenant began to explain -in good English-that the fallen Ranger had pitched a grenade at his marines. He deserved to die. The prisoner lay on the ground amidst the debris of battle-spent brass, empty ration cans, cabbage leaves, broken glass. He was still alive, his eyes open but no longer seeing. One marine took off his own tattered boots and began to strip the dying man of his. Five minutes later the prisoner died, expression frozen, feet bare. The marines began to move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: Looking Back: TIME Correspondents Recall the War | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

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