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...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 legal sanctions; speeding drivers, for example, should be tagged with steep fines. The Government will have to get on more swiftly with the job of developing new energy sources, including the immediate leasing of federally owned lands for shale-oil production. Senator Henry Jackson's bill, calling for expenditures of $20 billion over...
FIREPLACES: Wood-burning fireplaces are no bargain. For one thing, the price of a dozen logs is now as much as $6. This charming but primitive heating method is grossly inefficient and can cause stiff necks. If a homeowner is lucky enough to have a hearth with a good draft, the chimney will draw off as much as 20% of the heated air in the house...
Despite happy fraternizing by troops of the opposing armies outside, Yariv and el Gamasi were stiff and precise. They spoke in English with Siilasvuo but not to each other. They signed three English copies of the Kissinger agreement and then adjourned. Scarcely 24 hours later, the truce came close to being shattered. The trouble was, as Israeli Deputy Premier Yigal Allon told a television audience, that the agreement was "a typical Kissinger document. Each side can find [in it] whatever it wishes...
...Governor is a Roman Catholic who neither drinks nor smokes; he has seven children. In public he tends to be stiff and shy. After graduating from Princeton and Harvard (LL.B, '51), he served as an aide to Governor Robert B. Meyner for 3% years. In 1959 he was appointed prosecutor of Essex County and came to public attention by successfully prosecuting five contractors involved in construction scandals in Newark, as well as Racketeer Anthony ("Tony Boy") Boiardo. He became head of the state's public utilities commission in 1968 and was appointed by Cahill to the Superior Court...
...object of the exercise was less to mete out justice than to pressure the Bonn government into cracking down on the flourishing business of helping East Germans, principally highly trained professionals like doctors and engineers, to escape to the West. Stiff jail sentences were part of the message. One of the accused, a West Berlin seaman named Karl-Heinz Hetzschold, 30, got 11½ years for damaging East German interests and illegal profiteering. The lightest sentence was seven years for long-haired Hans-Dieter Voss...