ERDA Report Urges Diversified Energy Future Now
The ERDA study warns the United States must avoid relying on one energy source. It calls for rapid development of coal gasification shale oil and nuclear and solar options while expanding domestic oil and gas production and conserving energy. It notes uncertain timelines for fusion breeder reactors and emphasizes parallel progress across technologies.
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United States of America
New Energy Research and Development Administration
ERDA
Buckley seeks reform to curb food stamp abuses
Senator Buckley and 66 co sponsors push a plan to base eligibility on gross income rather than net after deductions. They contend this could raise benefits for those in real need while cutting program costs and reducing waste.
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Buckley
Congress
Sen. Buckley
House
South Vietnam
Cambodia
AFLC10
Democratic Party
From Thirty to Seventy Redefines Aging Life Styles
Henry S. Maas and Joseph A. Kuypers argue against mass senior housing and offer a new approach to aging in their book From Thirty to Seventy. They claim life at 30 foreshadows 70 and urge preserving individuality and rejecting nursing homes as horrors while seeking richer elder living arrangements.
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Henry S. Maas
Joseph A. Kuypers
Jossey-Bass, Inc
San Francisco
Ashenden Traces Wartime Intelligence Plot in London
In a World War I setting, writer Ashenden meets a colonel from the Intelligence Department who invites him to a London address. Ashenden visits a deserted house, guided by a noncommissioned officer, and proceeds to a back room, where the colonel’s true identity and plan unfold.
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Washington — Ashenden
England
Ashenden
Intelligence Department
Ashenden Meets R in a Spy Intro Scene From Maugham
Andrew Tully notes describe a tall lean man with a yellow lined face and toothbrush mustache who questions Ashenden then assigns a Geneva mission. The excerpt signals espionage craft as Maugham’s Ashenden, a key amateur spy, reflects on intelligence work then and now.
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Somerset Maugham
Ashenden
America
United States
Liberal Democrats' blitzkrieg stalls in Congress
Frank van der Linden argues the liberal coalition, after early gains in 1975, faces a skeptical electorate and failed aims. Vetoes and defections cripple major bills as freshmen Democrats fear defeat without strong funding and NC.E.A. support.
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Frank van der Linden
Washington
Congress
Capitol Hill
House
Senate
Gerry Ford
Intellectuals blamed as U S woes widen debate
Washington commentary symposium on America now asks if a failure of nerve plagues the nation. Noted scholars Lipset Luttwak Kristol and Kahn argue the intelligentsia fuels internal morale crisis in postindustrial society, shaping Western tensions from within.
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Washington
Emily Post
Amy Vanderbilt
George Wallace
Wallace
America
Commentary
The
American Jewish Committee
Seymour Lipset
Edward Luttwak
Irving Kristol
Herman Kahn
Stanford
Hoover Institution
Lipset
Europe
Intellectuals See U S Power Challenged By Elites
Edward Luttwak Irving Kristol and Herman Kahn critique a new anti business climate and elite influence. They warn of environmental regulation harming industry and a potential populist backlash against upper middle class progressives with Ford as a political leader.
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Edward Luttwak
Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research
Johns Hopkins University
Irving Kristol
Henry Luce
New York University
California
U.S
Herman Kahn
New York
Hudson Institute
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Ted Ralston
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James T. Gentry
Alfred Wallace
Oklahoma Press Association
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American Newspaper Publishers Association
Earth
Apol
London
By Andrew Tully
Secret Service
Geneva
National Committee For An Effective
N.C.E.C
Vietnam
Ford
N.C.E.A
By Kevin P. Phillips
Kahn
Gerald Ford
Will Rogers
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