Let's get with it energy plan urged by Meet the Press
The article argues for a centralized national push to unify energy policy combining coal shale oil and nuclear power to avert shortages by 1980. It cites the Manhattan Project as a precedent and calls on Congress and the President to impose hard rules to coordinate agencies and avoid bureaucratic bickering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meet the Press
NBC
Energy Bigwig
Leslie Groves
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Political notes from the Pennsylvania assembly session
Assemblyman Forest Hopkins reports on tax cuts boosting industry in Pennsylvania. Bills and resolutions covering welfare investigations, Lake Erie pollution, American government education, taxes based on census, veterans credit points, fire company reimbursements, lobbyist regulation, extended deer meat storage, minors hunting, flood plain maps, water resource conservation, civil changes, and bridge naming are discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin Miller
Fred Noyes
Rep
Hayes
Department of Environmental Resources
Senate
Wright
Susquehanna
Navy oil dumping and audits prompt federal concern
The article reports Navy officials accounting for millions of gallons of contaminated fuel dumped at sea in 1974, with audits urging reclaiming the fuel to save money and protect the environment. It notes rising discharges, stated costs, and a later halt plan, plus related Capitol anecdotes and an IRS computer error resolution for an 88-year-old widow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Pentagon
Cutting Big John's hair by Jim Bishop
A son recalls his father Big John a 250 pound police lieutenant who feared barbers elevators crowds and his wife Jenny. In Mike Ceretta's shop the barber scene merges with politics as a New York tale of fear, family ties, and a man’s eventual courage to let others cut his hair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenny
Mike Ceretta
Jackson Avenue
Union
Big John
Krolls
Dr. Keiser
Jack Mickley
Esther
Joe Willicombe
Venice
Joe
King Features Syndicate
Lucid
Momma
John
Johnny
Dad
Anna
Defies inflation by John Cunnit report summary
The report notes a decline in high ticket leisure sales while motion pictures and music show record postwar volume. With incomes down, leisure time may rise due to unemployment, pushing people toward cheaper, passive activities like listening to music and watching films. Ski resorts offer an exception with a strong season, yet box office still reached $1.9 billion, up about 25 percent for the year and the highest since 1946.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taxpayer Revolt
Dan McEldowney
Patti Wotus
West
Washington
New York
Blyth Eastman Dillon
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Manhattan
United States
Congress
Assemblyman Forest Hopkins
John O’conner
Pennsylvania
Harry Englehart
Department of Welfare
Reid Bennett
Lake Erie
PUC
P.U.C
Chamber of Commerce
Independence
William
Capitol
Capitol Plaza
General Accounting Office
Pascagoula
Miller
Internal Revenue Service
Helen M. Loan
Lake Soap, Wash
IRS
Jim Bishop
Corry
Mead Park
Carmen Rainieri
Mott Street
Mike
John Cunnit
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