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...draft registration. "We are sorely in need of a system of military recruitment that can provide essential manpower," says the man who challenged Richard Nixon for the Presidency in 1972 on the basis of the Indochina debacle. "At the same time, we are failing to utilize a vast reservoir of the nation's youth to meet social, economic, and environmental needs." At the Ford Foundation, McGeorge Bundy, under the guise of a report entitled "Youth and the Needs of the Nation," is bankrolling a lobbying campaign for the national service...
...Brumley Gap Concerned Citizen's Association. Geographically Brumley Gap is a chip in the rim of a natural cup shaped by the South Virginia Hills. APCO is the Appalachian Power Company, which wants to put a 200-foot-high dam in the notch, turning the bowl into a reservoir for the largest pump-storage facility in the U.S. and putting the old homesteads of nearly all Brumley Gap's 119 families under water. The hope of finding Indian graves and getting the whole area protected from APCO by having it registered as a National Historic Place is just...
...Teng's White House visits: "It was one of the most suffocatingly covered events to come to Jimmy Carter's Washington. Reporting this story required nothing so much as a sharp pair of elbows, a knack for getting into the right press pools and a deep reservoir of stamina." Bernstein likens covering Teng's visit to waging a guerrilla war against an army of reporters as well as the Secret Service, which imposed especially tight security...
Scene I, take two finds Diana as the Star's promotion writer a little later, then writing for society and home sections. Ear began in June of '75, and now she has a reservoir of sources, mostly phone contacts. She says she only hits one party a week. (Only one! we gasp. How does she ever choose?) The answer: "I usually pick the ones with lots of media people. They tend to be the best gossips...
...reserves, Pierre Desprairies, head of the French Petroleum Institute, recently polled 28 leading oil companies and individual experts on how much oil they thought was economically recoverable at a cost of $20 per bbl., which is about $6 above the going price. The consensus, he reported, was that "the reservoir of oil is large and full"-about 2,000 billion bbl. But there was also general concern about the declining rate of major new discoveries. Says Desprairies: "The big fields have been discovered...