25 Years Ago

* "Every time a fuel truck overturns and burns on the highway, there is renewed pressure to cease shipment of fuel by truck. Complainants fail to produce any alternative–are we to have pipelines or railroad spurs into every gas station?"

–R.W. Johnson, "The Energy Crisis &

How To Solve It"

* "A recent national poll…showed that 69 percent of Americans believe their government consistently lies to them–as compared with 35 percent who held this belief in 1972."

–Manuel S. Klausner, "Publisher's Notes"

* "Now, in 1975, the debate is over which national health insurance we'll get, not whether."

–Lynn Kinsky, "Waiting for Gulag"