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...authors describe it, the auto repair industry is fraught with deceit at every level, from gas station attendants who surreptitiously puncture tires with a screwdriver to insurance estimators who take kickbacks from body shops to steer business their way. In a modern version of highway robbery, the authors contend, the owners of the 90 million registered automobiles in the U.S. are bilked out of $8 billion to $10 billion a year-or about $1 of every $3 that they spend to keep their cars running...
...that he thought Abrams might have known about at least some of the illegal air strikes (TIME, June 26). But he added that he was "positive" Abrams knew nothing of the false reports that Lavelle ordered filed by airmen who took part in the missions. Most Pentagon military men contend that Abrams indeed knew nothing of the false reports and of only one or two of the illegal North Viet Nam strikes, which he considered unfortunate mistakes...
...raised deep questions about McGovern's leadership abilities. Yet the dilemma was a profound one in which the poignant personal considerations of both men collided with the brutal demand that public and party welfare come first. There was no way for McGovern to look good. His critics could contend that he put expediency above the anti-professional political idealism that his candidacy had seemed to espouse. Arguments will undoubtedly continue over whether his stature would have grown or diminished if he had never wavered in his support of Eagleton, fought out the health issue on purely medical grounds...
Sticks and Stomachs. Since then a procession of commercials boosting one product at the expense of another have bobbed up on the home screen. Promotions for Gulf Oil's Totem brand sandwich bags contend that they hold more than Union Carbide's Glad bags and Colgate-Palmolive's Baggies. Bisodol commercials trumpet its stomach-soothing effectiveness over Turns and Rolaids. A Beech-Nut gum ad stresses that each pack contains eight sticks and displays a Wrigley pack, which has only seven. A plug for a Volkswagen Type III sedan insists that it has just as much...
...long as their strategic forces remain in Egypt, the Soviets can contend with a situation that is ultimately limited to diplomatic damage. Moscow has been reduced to two seemingly reliable Arab allies, Syria and Iraq. But neither is as centrally important in the Arab world as Egypt. Some Middle East observers suspected that the Kremlin might undertake heavy-handed revenge by increasing the quota of Soviet Jews emigrating to Israel or by renewing diplomatic relations with the Israelis, which were broken off in 1967. There is not much else the Russians could do to punish Sadat. There is no sense...