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Octane Loss. Specifically, charges Lawrence Blanchard Jr., Ethyl's executive vice president, nonlead gasolines will have to use larger amounts of the more combustible gasoline components called aromatics, which compensate for the loss of octane that results from the removal of lead. Without them, high-performance engines as presently designed would lose power and produce knocking. But, argues Blanchard, the burning of the aromatics emits toxic benzene and other chemicals, which react with sunlight to produce heavy smog...
While not disputing Blanchard's claims, critics argue that lead from car exhausts is indeed a serious problem. Dr. Henry A. Schroeder of Dartmouth Medical School last week cited lead and other heavy metals among the major killers in the rogues' gallery of polluting agents. Blanchard's retort is that the amount of lead absorbed by the body is only the equivalent of "one BB shot of lead inhaled by one man over a period of 70 years...
During the ensuing three-hour battle, a shotgun blast hit James Rector, 25, an unemployed carpenter who was watching the melee from the supposed safety of a nearby roof. He later died of the wounds. Another rooftop spectator, Allan Blanchard, 29, was blinded by pellets from police guns...
Less than a year after Frances' death, Henry the widower married Susan Blanchard, stepdaughter of Oscar Hammerstein II. They honeymooned on St. John's in the Virgin Islands, free from the family and the phone. Peter, 10, chose that moment to aim a gun at his stomach and pull the trigger. The slug went through his liver. "I don't know if I was trying to commit suicide or not," says Peter. "Since then, the idea has occurred to me many times to do my self up, but righteously...
...greatest Fonda. It has taken Peter the longest to establish priorities, to coincide his in- telligence and his energy. He still guns his emotional engine too loud, and the exhaust from his pronunciamentos of ten obscures the man. "Peter has made a career of not being repressed," says Susan Blanchard. But the career has gone from bullying waste to something measurable. His scenario for Easy Rider was sometimes self-indulgent. Its villains were as exaggerated and snarling as the overdrawn wrongos of his Dad's old oaters, and its bloody ending reminiscent of the Emperor Nero's desire to attend...