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...highest peaks or plumbing the oceans' deepest bottoms. Their feats faithfully find their way into the Guinness Book of World Records, as do the odysseys of marathon smoke-ring blowers, balloonists, goldfish swallowers, grape eaters, yo-yo spinners, Scrabble players, prune devourers, face slappers, Pogo-stick jumpers, leapfroggers, barrel jumpers, needle threaders and record breakers in 10,000 other Record-worthy categories. For the past two weeks, in a guerrilla assault on Guinness, 200 young Californians assembled in Los Angeles to topple records or immortalize themselves and to discombobulate Recordkeeping...
Even the radio broadcasting crew has changed this season. Dave Martin is out and Jim Wood is broadcasting along with play-by-play vet Ned Martin. And Narragansett Lager beer, the beer with that "straight from the barrel taste," is back again as a sponsor for the first time since the famous '67 season. (Of course, old favorite engineer A1 Walker is back once again this year to the delight of his many fans. Some things never change...
...this part of the world is denied to the so-called Western world or the free world, you are dead. I have to go back a little. In 1947 the posted price for a barrel of oil in the Persian Gulf was $2.17. Then it was brought down to $1.79, and that lasted until 1969. So there were 22 years of cheap fuel that made Europe what it is, that made Japan what it is. Then the price of wheat jumped 300%, vegetables the same, and sugar in the past six years increased by 16 times. Can you imagine...
BEHIND HIS HOUSE, the Reverend Harper, a cracker-barrel oracle in the best tradition, has a little lean-to grocery. He is in his eighties and is well-known and respected for preaching at a different church each Sunday somewhere around the country. He is a type you have met before, in one account or another, or at least he seems to be. He is "always glad to talk to you;" he is full of wisdom...
...From Abu Dhabi to Zaire, government-owned firms are asserting more and more control over drilling, pumping, refining, shipping and pricing local petroleum. They already have played a key role in pushing prices to undreamed-of heights: several have auctioned off oil for $14.69, $17.34 or even $20 per barrel...