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...excellent selection from our book The Energy Crisis as a prelude to your article [May 7]. We must regretfully conclude that the nation is headed for an energy-caused convulsion of our physical life-support system. Once this happens, the institutions that guarantee economic and social freedom will surely vanish in the turmoil...
...federal court that is overseeing the Penn Central's operations in bankruptcy. Federal Judge John Fullam has given the railroad's trustees an ultimatum: devise a viable, Government-approved plan of reorganization by July 2 or start liquidating the line. Even if the Penn Central were to vanish as a corporation, the Government cannot let all its trains stop running. That, says Senator Hartke, "would be a calamity of the highest order. People would be out of work, and there would be shortages of energy, food and manufactured supplies." Thus July 2 is looming as a deadline...
...with thorns and she wants to scream. The thorns prick into her life and bleed fire. Why should he comfort her in his lame-ass way? She doesn't even know his name. She mustn't awaken him again, oh no; but it would be better to move, to vanish, than scream, for she has no idea where the scream would take her. So with infinite slowness she begins to wriggle from his embrace. He is unaware...
That will not vex, and vanish, when whims move...
...Levine, president of Manhattan-based Capitol Dress Co., foresees a day perhaps ten years off when the industry will vanish from New York altogether. He may be too pessimistic, but Saul Nimowitz, director of New York City's Office of Apparel Industry Planning and Development, asserts: 'The middle-sized Manhattan dressmaker has been the backbone of the city's $7 billion garment industry, and he is the one who cannot survive today. The big conglomerates have enough money to move out of town, and the one-sewing-machine people can operate in a closet. In between, forget...