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...cannot or will not alter their car-driving habits, suggesting that the cost of gasoline will not, alone, much reduce consumption. "My driving is out of necessity," says Diana Brown, a Portland, Ore., bookkeeper and secretary. "My reasons aren't going to change just because it costs me a nickel a gallon more to get there...
...hopeful that the heads of the front-line states-Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia-can persuade Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe of the anti-Smith Patriotic Front to attend the new conference. Last week Owen discussed his views on Rhodesia with TIME London Bureau Chief Herman Nickel. Excerpts...
Another set of calculations would take effect in 1981, when many forecasters expect gasoline consumption, which now runs at roughly 294 million gallons a day, to start declining. Then the tax would be raised another nickel or maybe even a dime for every year in which gas usage failed to drop at least 2% from the base period. The tax would reach its maximum in 1985 and not increase after that. Says White House Aide Stuart Eizenstat: "We don't want to make the level of consumption so unrealistically unachievable that the tax automatically will go into effect each...
...recalcitrant Senators for their support. In return, the President has agreed to reconsider some of the water-control projects on which substantial work has been done. His early-morning view: "I think a lot of them shouldn't go ahead even if they didn't cost a nickel. But the degree of completion is something that we should have given greater consideration...
...mother owned a boardinghouse and later leased a hotel near the Loop. Its lobby was a stage set filled with bit players of the '20s: drifters, grifters, autodidacts, a few nuts and bolts from the political machine. Some of the guests, Terkel remembers, "favored me with little nickel blue books: writings of Eugene V. Debs, Clarence Darrow, Thomas Paine, Bob Ingersoll, Upton Sinclair, Voltaire." Young Terkel was ripe for this heady blend of populism and indignation. The political passion of his life was conceived in 1924 when Fighting Bob La Follette ran for President on the Progressive ticket. "There...