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...converted gas stations with a little shed in back where they cook the pork in a pit, and a gravelled parking lot full of jacked-up Chevelles and the irresistible odor of the cooking. Inside the place, a couple of country boys beside the counter or the beer cooler are flirting with the waitresses who make the plates up from barbecue, potato salad, slaw, and hush-puppies, and put the take-outs in shiny paper bags. There's not even a juke box just a little radio playing Conway Twitty or Loretta Lynn or Donna Fargo...
...wonder how many people are turning up the heat on their electric blankets to compensate for the cooler bedrooms advocated by energy conservationists...
...government has enacted several measures intended to curb fuel consumption. Reduced speed limits, cooler homes and less driving are a few effects that Americans are feeling. Most people, however, are responding slowly to the newly imposed restrictions of their everyday life. With a little patience and a lot of humor, the American public should be able to find a lighter and better side to the darkness presented by the energy shortage...
...confronted television cameras and declared that he had been the victim of reporting that he assailed variously as "outrageous, vicious, distorted, frantic and hysterical" (see Hugh Sidey on the press conference, page 23). Perspiring and barely containing his anger at times, Nixon insisted that "the tougher it gets, the cooler I get." The recent scandal-inspired shocks that have so jolted the nation "will not affect me and my doing my job," he said. He had been through so much controversy ("it has been my lot") that "when I have to face an international crisis, I've got what...
Sadat first met Nasser in 1938, when both men were lieutenants in the army. At the time, Sadat was a hothead who schemed and dreamed about blowing up British installations; Nasser was the cooler one who dissuaded him from such wild plots. With others, the two soldiers formed the nucleus of what became the Free Officers' Committee, which eventually ousted King Farouk in 1952. For all his antimonarchical zeal, Sadat almost missed the coup. On the night that it was scheduled to take place, Sadat somehow failed to receive his tip-off message and spent the evening...