Word: winter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With her tan from a winter vacation fading as fast as her team's fortunes are rising, Carole Kleinfelder, coach of the women's basketball team, now runs a different Crimson squad from the one that lost its first three games...
...that was three months ago, when the winter season was not yet underway. Those were happy times, before fate and the complexities of the world of scholar-athletes dealt a crippling blow to women's swimming...
With this winter's sudden spate of gasoline shortages now beginning to disappear, can motorists count on a hassle-free spring and summer on the highway? Hardly. By Memorial Day or shortly thereafter, shortages may start appearing all over again...
Occasional gasoline shortages this summer would merely foreshadow inevitable and worse dislocations next winter. Usually, the oil companies draw down their inventories steeply during the winter months anyway, then use the spring and summer to replenish their stocks. But U.S. inventories are already 10% below what they were this time last winter; they now stand at some 298 million bbl., or about a one-month supply. So if Iran's production is not resumed soon, says Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, "we would face much larger drawdowns next winter than we will have the resources to maintain...
...which they distribute through branch lines to the whole of the Transcaucasus. Like their American counterparts, Soviet officials seemed at first to assume that the disruption of deliveries would be only brief, and little was done to arrange for alternative sources of supply if the troubles continued into winter. Belatedly they are now rushing to get apartments and factories to convert to oil heat-there is also an effort under way to pump Soviet oil down from the main pipeline network to the north. That, however, is an enormous engineering task, and even though the gas-rich U.S.S.R...