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Most Americans cannot yet get excited about that problem, but many of them have already seen the effects of the growing energy shortage. During the past three summers, there have been scattered brownouts across the nation. These cutbacks on voltage, designed to preserve overloaded generators, caused TV pictures to shrink, lights to dim and air conditioners to slow down. Electric utilities in major cities, which until a few years ago urged their customers to use more electricity, now have changed their line. The new theme, typified by New York City's Consolidated Edison Co., is "Save a watt...
Ironically, if the new rules do prompt a flood of U.S. investment, the outflow will temporarily worsen the enormous American balance of payments deficit with Japan. Profits from the investments, however, eventually would shrink the deficit again. In any case, the liberalization is welcome, and should help soothe the often acrimonious relations between the two mightiest economies in the non-Communist world. It will constitute a long-overdue recognition of reality: Japan's economy has grown far too powerful either to need or deserve protection...
While other installations shrink or disappear, the San Diego Navy Base will expand. It will become in fact the largest U.S. Navy port, reflecting the Pentagon's decision to locate on the Pacific Coast the nation's prime naval facilities. Thirty-one ships will be transferred to San Diego, bringing along 12,000 crewmen and adding as much as $100 million a year to the Navy payroll. Last year the Navy contributed $1.2 billion to the economy of the San Diego area. The expansion is expected to add $56.5 million a year in retail sales alone; some...
...Danny hops from state to state and bed to bed, what he really needs is a mother. (All McMurtry gives him is a father who has just about disowned him, and a bunch of brothers who ignore him). We keep on waiting for Danny to check in at a shrink's office; he's actually too busy blaming everyone else for his social and romantic failures to try and analyze himself. He is too nice a person, too much a writer, he thinks, to be able to actually hurt anyone. Unfortunately, McMurtry thinks...
...body's own natural defenses into fighting cancer. In Mrs. Brown's case, doctors deliberately exposed her to attenuated tuberculosis bacilli, figuring that if they could make her body resist them, it might resist the cancer as well. The strategy worked. Shortly after treatment began, her lesions began to shrink and disappear. Today Mrs. Brown has only a few lumps on her chest. None of her doctors will say that she is cured, but all agree that without immunotherapy she probably would not be alive today...