TIDBITS and ... OUTRAGES
TIDBITS and ... OUTRAGES Clearing the Record After a fire that killed nine men at Consolidation Coal’s Blacksville No. 1 mine in West Virginia, the company hurried to correct erroneous...
...But data from the GAO collected by Ralph Nader’s Congress Project, shows that over nearly a three-year period from 1969 to 1972, the GAO was asked to help Congress only 362 times-an average of 1.6 requests per Senator and .46 per Representative...
...Charles Bennett), and probing fuse contracts (Rep...
...Ready to put prestige to work...
...Perhaps, even intimidate...
...Ella Grasso...
...Meanwhile, the Bureau of Mines was explaining how it punishes these momentary lapses...
...He won again by 800 votes...
...William Proxmire used the GAO the most (37 times), to figure out the Pentagon, and H. R. Gross led the House with 11 studies-on federal waste and general government suckerdom...
...Customer...
...AMERICA COMES HOME From Sports Illustrated’s Football Preview: Strange things are happening in Colorado...
...Energy Crisis Investor-owned utility companies, whose rates are set by the government but whose profits go to private owners, have proven once again that capitalism and regulation can get along fine...
...Statesman...
...Impress...
...In 1970, the average return for 184 utilities grossing more than $1 million was 11.33 per cent...
...And, most unprecedented, footballwhich has always lost out to the mountains as recreationhas become a mania...
...Actually, said Consol president John Corcoran, there had only been 397 violations...
...The new student-body president is an ex-marine elected on his promise to veto use of compulsory fees to subsidize anti-war activities...
...Now people want to be, happier, to enjoy society more .” From a Rolls Royce ad in the September 9, 1972 New Yorker: “It’s a working day, with very important people for your Silver Shadow Long-Wheelbase Sedan to indulge...
...State utility commissions usually aim at giving the utilities a six per cent return on their invested capital...
...Other congressmen put the GAO to more limited uses, like finding out about how to consolidate laundry service in two Veterans’ Administration hospitals (Rep...
...The General Accounting Office will run audits and send out investigators at a congressman’s request...
...There seems to be a Greek revival...
...Thomas McIntyre’s one investigation), studying alterations to the U.S.S...
...When he did just that, and radicals forced a recall election, he replied briefly, “Nuts to you all...
...Elegant, imposing, the essence of fine breeding, ready for the sure hand of the chauffeur, and the august presence of Client...
...People are looking for something to lift them up,” says John Keyworth, CU’s intellectual tight end...
...To do the job it does best, the job thirty generations have readied it for...
...Twenty-six of the companies had return rates above 15 per cent...
...OUTRAGES Clearing the Record After a fire that killed nine men at Consolidation Coal’s Blacksville No...
...The metabolic rate is low, perhaps becausestudents say-of a shared belief that government, environment, even their personal futures are out of control: perhaps because priorities have changed...
...Since the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act went into effect, the Bureau has assessed fines totaling $12.5 million-but has collected only $.4 million and has completely forgiven at least $2.7 million, An Idle Watchdog While congressmen complain that their meager committee staffs and three computers are no match for the m t e House and Executive departments with their 1400 computers, most of them ignore the investigative service that is theirs for the asking...
...In practice, prospects have been even better for the utilities...
...Now the Rolls Royce, ready...
...Colleges have been turning out grim pessimists...
...Royalty...
...Puget Sound (Rep...
...An eerie quiet, an odd lassitude prevails at “Berkeley East...
...1 mine in West Virginia, the company hurried to correct erroneous reports that federal inspectors had cited the mine for 485 safety violations...
Vol. 4 • October 1972 • No. 8
