Word: summers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charge of bungling. A few weeks ago the Department of Energy was predicting that gasoline supplies would be more plentiful in June than in May. Now officials confess that they have no idea how much gas drivers can count on buying for the rest of the month, the summer, the year...
Although there are few lines in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire, this is partly because the shortage in the larger population centers has diminished the flow of summer tourists. In Vermont, which has been advertising "Come to Vermont, we have plenty of gas," the wording has been changed to: "We have adequate gas." Throughout New England, according to one survey, only 21% of 659 stations expected to be open last Sunday...
Toon, who is expected to retire from the Foreign Service at the end of the summer, had been a supporter of SALT. But now he has some doubts, worrying about the problems of verification. That had nothing to do with his being replaced in Moscow, but Watson will have an advantage in Carter's eyes: he is a firm advocate of SALT, and the Administration may use him to help sell the treaty to the Senate...
...quickly as workmen could throw up one-room wooden shelters designed to ward off the daily summer rains, whole families moved in. Others huddled in their cars parked in the muddy courtyard. Medical supplies were unavailable, and sanitary conditions were so bad that doctors feared epidemics would break...
...government faces a troubled summer...