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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fits poorly into the narrative. Playing Kissinger with a Greek accent, Melina Mercouri advises Jackson from abroad, using a portable phone to check on the abbess' progress. It is funny once or twice, but not as a running gag. Still, there are few problems with the acting save the occasional air of embarrassment from the nuns who deliver the poorest lines...

Author: By Hilary B. Klein, | Title: A Habit Worth Breaking | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...electricity-consuming milking machines, then putting all the bureaucrats and millions of others not gainfully employed to work milking cows. If we are willing to rely upon people power rather than energy resources, we could really begin to defoliate the bureaucratic jungle, create a lot of honest jobs and save energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 25, 1977 | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

CASE FOR CONSERVATION. Simply because the U.S. uses so much energy, it can also save a lot. But conservation is often very expensive, especially when large plants must be converted to different fuels or "retrofitted" with more efficient equipment. There also are limits beyond which conservation would become a debilitating brake on the nation's economic activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Opening the Debate | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...nine-member commission, headed by retired Chicago Banker Gaylord Freeman, estimates that dropping Saturday deliveries would save the Postal Service $412 million a year. The commission will also recommend further mechanization of mail handling to save $134 million annually, and suggest other improvements in management and productivity that would save $78 mil lion. Total savings: $624 million annually. Also proposed is the gradual elimination of subsidized postal rates for nonprofit organizations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POSTAL SERVICE: Never on Saturday? | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...anarchists and lost the support of the peasants. Nelson calls Orwell's book the worst work on the civil war any says. "Orwell gave a distorted view of what the forces were in Spain. He expected socialist revolution. Actually the struggle in Spain was to defeat fascism and save the Republic...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: Courage When It Counted | 4/22/1977 | See Source »

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