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Hickel pointed out that the proposed line would carry hot oil over frozen soil. Unless designed with extreme care, he insisted, it would act like a hot poker on a cake of ice. After thawing the permafrost, the line might sag into the slush and finally break, spilling oil that could do great harm because it would last for years. Moreover, the line's route would cross earthquake zones. Since each mile of pipe would have a capacity of 100,000 barrels of crude, any break in the line could have disastrous consequences...
...would fare against a rated U.S. heavyweight such as Jimmy Ellis or Leotis Martin is anyone's guess. There is considerable question as to how well Urtain can take a punch; his jaw seemed suspiciously fragile in the Weiland fight when a patty-cake left by the West German put him in a daze for a few moments. Still, Spaniards have ultimate faith in their boy. Insists Roberto Duque, president of the Spanish Boxing Federation: "If Urtain ever learns to box, he'll be world champion...
...being without an ordinary pencil: "If Onassis knocked on the door and wanted to buy our house for a highway phone booth, I would have to sign the agreement with (a) an eyebrow pencil, (b) yellow crayon, (c) cotton swab saturated in shoe polish, (d) an eyedropper filled with cake coloring, or (e) a sharp fingernail dipped in my own blood...
...happy for her amore to have his thing. It made the keeds ecstatic. They could sit forever, Girl and Alfred, contentedly watching him torture his metal and rusticating it or affixing the electric eyeballs to his clowns. Freed, Sam loved the woman who had baked the file into his cake, and they were happier than Merilee had believed people in groups of more than one could ever...
...become casual lovers playing for time-and losing. He keeps dicing away his savings; Mr. Right fails to come to her rescue on schedule. While they run in place, Gilroy furnishes them with crapped-out dialogue: "I've met some nuts in my time, but you take the cake," "Never darken my door again unless it's for keeps," and "Which is worse, the heart abused or the heart unused?" For those who cannot answer that question, the film provides a clue: when the boy friend finally arrives with a divorce decree, ten-carat ring and oleaginous smirk...