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As of last week, there is a new damned man. Russell E. Train, 53, who has been chairman of the President's advisory Council on Environmental Quality for the past three years, succeeds (the Senate permitting) William Ruckelshaus, who left the EPA three months ago to serve as acting...
As the environmental council chairman, Train was the only Nixon Administration official to press for a national debate on the future of economic growth; he questioned what he called the philosophy of "produce or perish." He has also come to the defense of conservation forces in the national controversy about...
The city's efforts to ameliorate the brutality of gang life and the gang neighborhoods have had mixed results. Of the nearly 200 Youth Conservation Workers that the city assigns to the gangs, few have been markedly successful in weaning youngsters away from their corners. Civic volunteers have established...
In a move that might appease environmentalists, Nixon also endorsed conservation of energy. He instructed the Federal Government to set "an example for all consumers" by cutting its energy use by 7% within the next year.
As for the private sector. Nixon asked for the conservation of energy on a "voluntary basis." If airlines slightly decrease the frequency of flights-while raising the average jetliner load from the present 52% to 60%-they will save about 1.3 billion gallons a year. Citizens can help too. They...