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Last year the average U.S. household used some 8,000 kw-h., or more than thirteen times as much as in the 1930s. Contrary to much pop sociology, a proliferation of frivolous power gadgets is not to blame. An electric toothbrush uses only 0.5 kwh. of electricity per year, about a penny's worth. A carving knife costs about 18? per year, or 8 kw-h., a garbage disposer about 69?, or 30 kwh. per year. Because they are expressly engineered for specific functions, the new electric griddles, fry pans, toasters and coffeemakers are more efficient and economical than...
...this understanding which has come to be the basis of my present political outlook, I must give some credit to an inspiration I received from John Kennedy while watching him on television nearly thirteen years ago. That is why, despite the Bay of Pigs and despite the wiretaps, I cannot in all good conscience damn him on the tenth anniversary of his assassination...
...been marked by such studied caution that it won him the reputation of being Austria's most astute politician. Despite his background as the son of a wealthy industrialist, Kreisky joined the socialist movement at age 15. After the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938, he fled to Sweden. Thirteen years passed before he returned home. First as a diplomat and then as Foreign Minister (1959-66), Kreisky deftly helped steer Austria on the course of political neutrality...
...vexillologists insist. There are new nations in the making all the time, and there are old ones that could stand a change of banner. The U.S., with its stars grown altogether out of hand, could well be placed in the latter category. A return to the original thirteen stars would, the vexillologists say, "be a fine birthday present for the U.S. at its bicentennial." Not to mention pleasing to the seventh congress of vexillologists, which is scheduled for 1977 in Philadelphia...
...Until this year Texas was known as a dangerous place indeed to smoke. Eight hundred marijuana offenders were in jail, serving an average sentence of 9½ years for possession. Thirteen were in for life, and Lee Otis Johnson, a black activist arrested in 1968, was sentenced to 30 years for having passed a marijuana joint to an undercover agent. Last May the Texas legislature voted to make possession of two ounces or less of marijuana a misdemeanor punishable with a maximum six-month jail sentence and $1,000 fine...