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...years. "Couldn't the oil companies have forecast the fact that they were going to be short of gasoline by this year?" Roberts asks. "The answer is absolutely yes. Those companies have good economists, and they had to have known that some time in 1973 they would bump up against the restraints of their refining capacity." Oilmen retort that until recently they could not get high enough prices for their products to make new refineries yield an adequate return on investment...
Upon returning home from the hospital after a four-hour, unsuccessful operation, Gonzales spent most of his time in bed and complaining of pain in his back. He kept his children away from him for fear they would bump him and increase his pain; he became a heavy drinker and made three attempts at suicide. Because of his emotional anguish, Gonzales was unable to accept drug treatment for a testicular cancer discovered three years after the operation. As a result, doctors say, he now has only a 10% chance of surviving three years...
...backfield diversity has left Restic without the option to overshift and load up on one side of the line, so the defensive strategy for Harvard will stress shutting off Pagliaro's inside game. "We want to bump him outside," Restic said, "and keep him from getting turned upfield. Sideline to sideline he's not that tough, but he's an exceptional runner when he's headed upfield...
...staged and executed with vigorous economy; no flash, just straight, brutal action. There is also a spectacular and funny showdown at the end between a hired killer (Joe Don Baker) driving a car and Charley behind the controls of a crop duster. As the car and the plane bump, sideswipe and crash into one another, the scene becomes almost a parody of the recent excesses of the chase that were encouraged by The French Connection...
...Arantes do Nascimento ("Pelé") and Champion Race Car Driver Emerson Fittipaldi, has a new game that combines the most violent aspects of both sports. Autobol, as it is called, is played roughly-very roughly-according to soccer rules except that the players drive stripped-down Renault Dauphines and bump the ball instead of kicking it. The result is a kind of motorized madness that seems perfectly in tune with a country that has one of the world's highest auto fatality rates...