Too Little And Too Late On Energy Crisis 1974
President Nixon outlined voluntary energy conservation steps including Sunday gas station closures speed limits and allocation cuts with mandatory rules possible after Congress approval. The oil shortfall could reach 3 to 4 million barrels daily by 1974 with heating oil and gasoline supplies tightening and a potential GDP drop and higher unemployment. The public is urged to act, though critics question the administration’s speed and decisiveness in averting deeper shortages.
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Nixon
Congress
Senate
House
United States
Middle East
Letters to the Editor Policy and Reader Submissions
The editorial page outlines letters handling, limits, and quality goals for reader correspondence. It explains publishing practices, legal concerns, and the aim to avoid excess from prolific or noninformative writers, urging clearer submissions with signatures and contact details.
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Enterprise
Editorial Research Reports
C. Excelle Rozzelle
Ode to Eugene ONeill A towering American dramatist dies in Boston
Twenty years after his death Eugene ONeill is celebrated as possibly America's greatest playwright. He won three Pulitzers for Beyond the Horizon 1920 and 1922 and 1928 and the Nobel Prize in literature, the only American dramatist to do so. His work included experimental forms in Strange Interlude The Great God Brown and Days Without End and long plays like Long Day's Journey Into Night and The Iceman Cometh. Curtain times and length challenged audiences, but critics praised his fearless theatre pioneering and lasting influence.
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New York
Charlotte Observer
Observer
G. Bernard Shaw
Eugene O'Neill
Mary McCarthy
O'Neill
James T.) Farrell
Theodore) Driser
United States
Mary Tyrone
God Brown
Lazarus
America
Nixon tax write off questions raise shadow on gift
Former White House aide Roy Kinsey testified to the Senate Watergate Committee about efforts to deduct a 1970 pre presidential papers gift worth about 575000. He described White House maneuvering to claim the deduction, delays in archiving, and questions over power of attorney and deed delivery. Kinsey noted the original deed remained in White House files into 1973 and was not properly handed to GSA.
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Washington
Ixon
White House
Senate Watergate Committee
Roy
Pete’ Kinsey
Nixon
Kinsey
Weicker
Ralph Newman
Lincoln Book Store
Chicago
National Archives
Ed Morgan
Morgan
John Dean
General Services Administration
GSA
Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Johnson
Jack Nesbit
Nesbit
Don Nixon
Whittier
Problems For Solomon In Energy Crisis And Rationing Debate
The piece examines energy shortages and a proposal by Arch Booth of the U S Chamber to ration gasoline via a fair system. It questions priority definitions, per car versus per household allocations, and risks of black markets, while noting Nixon’s Sunday stations shutdown. It also reports Elks Lodge memorials, wedding ad pricing shifts at the Detroit Free Press, and trends in furniture design toward Early American styles.
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Nixon
Arch Booth
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Wall Street Journal
Detroit Free Press
John Tobin
Southern
Furniture South
Israel Tops In Homemade Weapons And Export Market
Israel has quietly built a high tech arms industry exporting quality weapons at low cost. It modifies Mirage and Phantom aircraft, develops its own fighters, and fields the Gabriel missile with a shipkilling capability. The Uzi and Galil arms are cited, with possible nuclear capability rumor. Israel rebuilt Centurion tanks, boosting firepower and range, while making half its hardware domestically. International sales have grown fivefold since 1967, with arms now about 18 percent of exports.
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U. S
Secret Service
Service
de Surete
Jericho
France
Nih
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