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...take notes and volunteer hints of their own. ("I use distilled water for drinking; it stores longer"; "We plan to evacuate as a group in our mobile homes, and pull them into a circle for a wagon-train effect.") Jim Miller, 33, an auto service department manager from Boles, Ky., came for the food preservation and weapons courses. He now resolves to do more home canning, and to teach his ten-year-old son how to handle a gun. "He likes the idea, but his mother doesn't," says Miller. Charles Harrison, 31, a scholarly-looking accountant, says that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Festival of the Fed-Up | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...Russell, Ky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 8, 1979 | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...real, continuing chauvinism. The parochial boast occurs everywhere, and its inspiration can be anything: a product, a geographical feature, the weather (good or bad), even notoriety. Many a place, in the Dodge City tradition, has nurtured its morale on a reputation for meanness: Harlan County, Ky., is famous for little else. Arizona hymns its dry air; Louisiana often builds a brag on its murderous humidity. Amarillo, Texas, brags about its yellow dust. Nashville has a swelled head over the racket, only occasionally musical, that it produces; Memphis lauds itself about the special quiet it has enjoyed ever since the late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Local Chauvinism: Long May It Rave | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...dispute with such "a group of superbly qualified, highly objective, extremely intelligent analysts," but he added that he planned to "let my voice be heard and felt . . . from various places in the country." This week the new campaign of hard-selling will take him to Bardstown, Ky., and more trips are being planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Now, for the Hard Sell | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...common process, coal is heated under great pressure to 900° F. As the coal decomposes, it releases oil and gas. Another extraction method, which adds hydrogen to coal that is heated under pressure, will be tested at a small, experimental plant operated by several oil companies in Catlettsburg, Ky. It should be able to convert 600 tons of coal into 1,800 bbl. of oil a day. At a DOE-funded plant in Fort Lewis, Wash., Gulf Oil since 1974 has been testing yet another process called "solvent refined coal," which uses chemicals to remove impurities from the synthetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lighting Up Synfuel's Future | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

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