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GASOLINE TAX. The current 4?-per-gal. federal tax on gasoline might eventually be increased in stages to as much as 54?, with the aim of encouraging motorists to use less gas and switch from gas guzzlers to smaller cars with better mileage. The tax-setting machinery would be complicated. First the Government would gauge actual nationwide gas consumption over a set period. This period could run until next Sept. 30, or it could be postponed until calendar year 1978 to give drivers more time to adjust their habits and possibly cut fuel consumption. At the end of the trial...
...aim here is not to send the monster autos the way of the dinosaurs but to make them a more expensive privilege, using a system of tax levies and rebates based on mileage standards that have already been set by the Federal Government. Autos will be required to yield 18 m.p.g. by next year, 20 m.p.g. by 1980 and 27.5 m.p.g. by 1985. Not every individual car must meet these standards; they apply to the average of the models of each manufacturer...
...Research on Animal Diseases (ILRAD), a team of scientists has managed to grow in the test tube the long, slender, infective form of the single-celled parasite Trypanosoma brucei. That feat-accomplished by Hiroyuki Hirumi, a Japanese-born American scientist, and John Doyle, a Scottish colleague-has been the aim of medical scientists for years. In the past, whenever researchers tried to culture the bug, it invariably reverted to a harmless form. Thus they were unable to learn much about the deadly parasite-to say nothing of devising weapons against...
...barely more than a practice race every year," Higginson said. The aim is to beat the Lions by as much as possible and then compare margins with Princeton. Last year on the Harlem River a rock thrown from the shore put a Crimson rower out of commission just before the race, but even that could not alter Columbia's fortunes...
...least conspicuous and most docile of minorities-until recently. Now they are on a warpath of sorts again, armed this time with old treaties and new court writs and led by sharpshooting lawyers whose allies include, to the chagrin of many non-Indians, the U.S. Government. Their stated aim: to recover huge swatches of land and some of the rights they yielded during the inexorable sweep of expanding American civilization. Their campaign seems to raise the improbable but not frivolous question: Should the country-or sizable parts of it-be given back to the Indians...