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...stockpile of oil sufficient to carry the nation through a year during which foreign producers withheld 1 million bbl. a day of potential shipments to the U.S. The policy would cost $4.7 billion, but that would be a bargain; without it, such an embargo would take a $33 billion bite out of national production. Blueprint does not firmly recommend any of the strategies it describes; its purpose is to outline a wide range of choices...
After a dozen highly publicized "summit" meetings, innumerable agitated sessions with his official advisers and countless private talks with old friends, President Ford said that he was ready at last to "bite the bullet" on the economy. But the program that he presented last week to a nationally televised joint session of Congress was more balm than bite, and not a great deal of either...
...becoming the only other filly besides Dahlia ever to earn $1 million. Back at the stable, keeping the champ happy takes considerably more than oats. Allez France demands the camaraderie of Merry Lord, a horse who leads the morning workouts, dotes on the champion and lets her bite him and bump him around. Trainer Angel Penna has thoughtfully equipped her stall with soothing Mozart on stereo. And that's not all. There is someone special in the winner's life too: a sheep, called simply le mouton, with whom Allez France has shared her musical tastes...
...congregate in St. Augustine to revel in the poor drainage, ubiquitous trash and human filth. Most of the Indian children are under 12, and their resistance has not yet developed. They are beseiged with impetigo--a skin disease manifesting itself in open sores all over the body. Every blackfly bite that is scratched becomes an oozing sore, attracting more flies. Relief is guaranteed only with the coming cold weather when the flies will...
...oohs and ahs that Rosovsky's statements may have initially caused, most of the bite was taken out when he assured the alumni that he does not favor decreasing the number of undergraduate...