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Bradshaw said he thinks the nation will use nuclear power and coal as transitional fuels but added that safety considerations will demand a rapid switch to solar power. ARCO is extensively researching different uses of solar energy, especially a plan based on decentralized photovoltaic cells...
Jerry Brown: The Democratic long shot no longer attacks businessmen as profit-grubbing plunderers of the environment, but he is having trouble fitting his "small is beautiful" philosophy to the realities of a $2.4 trillion economy. Brown convincingly argues that the nation's throw-away economy squanders scarce resources; yet he would vastly expand exploration of outer space even though the payoff is doubtful at best. He calls for a ban on new nuclear power plants and would give much more of a subsidy to solar power, though almost every study shows that over the next two decades solar...
...nothing else, the me-too familiarity of almost all the leading candidates shows just how intractable the nation's economic problems really are. So far, the challengers to Carter in Campaign 1980 have done little more than rehash the safe, the secure and the unexciting...
DIED. Richard Rovere, 64, astute political reporter and author who for 30 years wrote the Washington Letter for The New Yorker; of emphysema; in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. The New Jersey-born son of an electrical engineer, Rovere graduated from Columbia and worked as an editor at the Nation before joining The New Yorker in 1944. A liberal who had once flirted with Communism, Rovere was noted for his fairness, his objectivity and his ability to place politics in perspective...
...nation's wise man warns that the stone is the heart of Karnica: "If we remove it, the kingdom will die." But in such stories, the rulers never listen, giving the author an opportunity to draw a powerful moral about conservation. It is no accident that Sierra Club Books is a co-publisher...