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Politics and Oil Prices The oil-exporting countries could put President Carter out of office if they want ed to [March 19]. All they would have to do is raise the price of oil to the point where our economy goes berserk, and he, or any President they did not like, would be voted out of office...
Bruin Henry Pippins then lofted an arching pass in the direction of Barrows, who made the catch in spite of a fierce check by Harvard's Jamie Egasti. Barrows sprinted cross-field and burned First with his buzzer-beater. The Brown bench went berserk, swarming their momentary hero...
...Harvard bats, which had been much too passive in the first two Northern contests (Crimson batters had struck out a total of 19 times against UMass and Princeton, but 11 of those fannings came on called third strikes), went berserk in the sixth inning, as the hitters turned Pearl Harbor on the Horsehide and scored six runs to dispatch Navy's 1-0 lead...
...goes with cameraman Douglas to film a special at a nuclear power plant outside Los Angeles where Lemmon is the control-room supervisor. While getting the standard tour from the plant's public relations man, buzzers ring, bells clang, the control panel lights up like a Christmas tree gone berserk, and the building shakes. Clearly, something is wrong...
...first piece, "A Walk in the Country," Crews and some friends carouse through Tennessee. Stopping at a roadhouse, they meet Jake Leach, a man obsessed by a horrific memory. As a child of five, he had witnessed the hanging of an elephant named Alice, which had gone berserk and killed a little girl. Justice, absurdly satisfied, has left Leach traumatized for life: "That little girl and Alice were the same age ... That's what gets me." In the essay "The Most Kindest Cut of All: Vasectomy," Crews humorously plays with a castration fear. "Suppose," asks his doctor, trying...