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...source of energy is becoming not only prohibitively expensive, but its import is a drain on our economy. Why then is there silence about the use of alcohol as fuel for automobiles in place of gasoline? Its effectiveness has been established over the years by its use in racing cars. Studies show that it is at least equal to gasoline in its efficiency, creates less pollution, can be used in existing engines with only minor adjustment, and can be abundantly and cheaply produced...
...classic guerrilla fashion, Polisario fighters are mounting up to five raids a week on enemy-held villages to drain the morale of the occupiers. Beckwith accompanied them on one mortaring mission and filed this account of a five-day, 900-mile venture...
Presidential candidates chosen by Mexico's dominant P.R.I. (Partido Revolucionario Institutional) are as certain of election as machine aldermen in Chicago. For that reason, power tends to drain rapidly from their lameduck predecessors as Presidents-elect stake out their policies. Since he was tapped to succeed Luis Echeverria as Mexico's President 14 months ago, José López Portillo has broken with that tradition. Even though he carried out a grueling 40,600-mile campaign from the oilfields and swamps of Tabasco to the high sierra, "Don Pepe" has promised only to govern by the "laws...
Martin said that he "just couldn't let the organization that was doing so much for blacks go down the drain...
...think you're straining at gnats to explain the "brain drain" from the South. I suppose it's natural to relate the brain drain to writers. But the apparent reason for the writer drain is that...