Word: conservee
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Sir / You are hereby directed to stop publishing. You are under citizen's arrest for sedition, treason, subversive activities and other high crimes. You were not elected leader of this nation. That function was given to Nixon in 1972 to be carried out for four years. Just close down...
As usual in an emergency, they reacted with remarkable individuality. Floyd Wallace of Leslie, Mich., claims to have found a way to concoct a gasoline substitute by cooking in a big steel drum ingredients as unlikely as wood, leaves, brush and a soupcon of everyday garbage. In Massachusetts, the Warren...
If the U.S. is to avoid the worst of the energy crisis, federal, state and local governments will have to act more forcefully to conserve existing fuel supplies. President Nixon cannot afford to wait to get the complex machinery ready for rationing. Other conservation efforts should be backed by stiff...
The biggest savings, though, are to be won by resisting the lures of high horsepower. In a General Motors test, Buick Electras used 21% less gas at 50 m.p.h. than at 70 m.p.h. Smaller cars have saved as much as 30% by driving at 50 m.p.h. rather than 70 m.p.h...
As the emergency took hold, the bright lights of Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square were dimmed in order to conserve electricity. TIME asked British Satirist and Author Auberon Waugh (son of Novelist Evelyn Waugh) to comment on the mood of the nation in the midst of its latest eco nomic...