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Press Secretary Ron Nessen's face shone brightly the day he took over the White House briefings and announced, "I'm a Ron, but not a Ziegler." But after 2% strenuous months and an exhausting presidential jaunt to Asia, an exasperated Nessen was displaying Ziegler-like ways, including rare press conferences, sour exchanges with reporters and bombastic language inflating the achievements of his boss. The White House press was beginning to wonder out loud, "How long can Nessen last?" Then, last week, Nessen admitted his errors and promised to improve...
...Federal Energy Administration, was made public. The report lays out supply and demand choices from which Government policymakers might choose. The study is cautious about the potential of alternative energy sources. But it argues that by exploiting both these sources and domestic oil reserves and by adopting a strenuous, mandatory conservation program, the nation can cut its total annual growth in energy use from the 4% to 5% rate of recent years to as low as 2% by 1985. Among the conservation options: federal standards for energy use in cars and buildings, expansion of public transport and an enforced shift...
...Crimson, following Ford's Olympian program of one strenuous workout after another, has managed to build up a 2-0 Ivy record for second place in the League, but Dartmouth's aforementioned record has earned only third, tied with Cornell...
...strenuous 16-hour days graphically displayed Ford's developing style as President. He plunges into action, dealing personally with the maximum number of people and problems, both big and little. After two months in office, he is running meetings with more authority and acting more confident. But his whirlwind pace has also led to criticism that he spends too much time on the unimportant details of the presidency and not enough on the tough and complex decisions that he now must make. On three days, his schedule did not even leave him enough time to visit his wife Betty...
...same New York Post for more than 30 years. Wilson's 1,000-word column, "It Happened Last Night," appears six days a week and is now syndicated in nearly 200 newspapers. Wilson treads his ex-stable mate's old path around Manhattan and keeps the same strenuous hours. The fruit of all that effort-a dollop of show business shoptalk and a few bon mots from the stars, wrapped around a demi-cheesecake photo of some starlet-may not always seem worth it. But occasionally he comes up with a genuine hard-news scoop, like...