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...driver Stogie; Number One Nose Picker noses ahead of his good buddy Squirrel. Not to be outhandled, other truckers are known as Popper Stopper, Bootlegger, Mule Skinner and Silver Fox. Even the handful of women truckers enter the naming game. Granny Go Go, Lovey Dovey and Truckin' Mama barrel on down the highway with the boys...
...England Petroleum, which supplies fuel for nearly 30,000 Boston residences and businesses, has less than ten days of the low sulfur fuel left. "The situation is deteriorating daily--we haven't the slightest hope of getting a barrel more," a spokesman for the company said Wednesday...
...Agnew gave us his own epitaph in 1969: "We can, however, afford to separate them from our society-with no more regret than we should feel over discarding rotten apples from a barrel...
None of that is really reassuring, though; the Arabs essentially have the West over a 42-gal. oil barrel. World oil use will more than double during the 1970s. Slaking that intense thirst requires continual swift increases in output, and there is only one place they can come from. The desert sands of the Arab nations hold at least 300 billion bbl. of easily recoverable oil, or 60% of the proven reserves in the non-Communist world. Merely by increasing production more slowly than the West desires-let alone reducing it-the Arabs could cause considerable discomfort...
...next January. Completed after his death, it was previewed last fortnight by a black-tie party of more than a thousand Texans. It is the fourth museum building by a leading international architect to rise in Texas in the past year (the other three are Louis Kahn's barrel-vaulted Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth [TIME, Jan. 15], Philip Johnson's white cubist Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi and Edward Durell Stone's stark brick Amarillo Art Center). Certainly the Mies building is the most problematic- an anthology of his vices and virtues...