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...fuel crunch and federal demands speed the shift to smaller models...
Unless either house of Congress moves to vote down the Adams plan by May 22-and that now seems unlikely-it will go into effect automatically this October. While Amtrak is a prune candidate for surgery, Congress in this instance may be acting overhastily. A new oil crunch is here, and Amtrak offers about the only energy-efficient alternative to cars. The Adams plan commendably seeks to save cash, but it might be better if it were part of some larger strategy to rebuild and restructure Amtrak to match the fast, comfortable and dependable services of Europe and Japan. Unfortunately...
...golf course, assorted men of Dartmouth are cheerfully risking life and limb at a crowd-pleasing contest called the Downhill Canoe Race. The Skyway Lodge is full of schussers past and schussers yet-to-be, dates, officials, boots, parkas, day-packs, the friendly slurp of gulped hot chocolate, the crunch of doughnuts being engulfed, the smells of wet wool and wood smoke...
...consequences of the energy crunch for individual companies will depend on how much they need oil. For example, nearly all of Du Pont's 1,700 products, from paint to tires, use oil as an ingredient. Says the chief executive of a major chemical manufacturer: "If anything, we have underestimated the inflationary effects of the oil price rises...
...come down to a crunch, but we've had other crunches before," Moose said last week, explaining that the South African government's greatest concern has to do with the prospects of the concentration of South-West Africa Peoples Organization (SWAPO) bases in Namibia. The South African government would like to see a provision for monitoring SWAPO forces included in the U.N. plan, he added...