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...medicine has found no cure for the hangover, although aspirin can alleviate the headache. Despite a plethora of folk cures (none of them really effective), the best policy is to avoid drinking in excess the night before. Actually, no one knows exactly what causes the hangover's unpleasant symptoms of headache, nausea, depression and fatigue, which many drinkers experience at one time or another...
...WRETCHED EXCESS (1): Costumer Edith Head's eighth Oscar for The Sting, for remembering how people dressed back when she began her career...
...WRETCHED EXCESS (2): Katharine Hepburn's love of herself for finally attending the party after regretting 41 previous annual invitations. Everyone's pleasure in her modest triumph over justifiable nausea quite overwhelmed her reason for being there: to present the Irving Thalberg Award to Producer Lawrence Weingarten...
PETROLEUM. Steadily rising prices for petroleum products ensure that owners of drilling rights will make a killing. Although the Government controls the price of most oil, two important categories are exempt from regulation: "new" crude (the amount a well produces in excess of what it pumped during the corresponding period in 1972) and oil from "stripper" wells that produce 10 bbl. a day or less. Stripper oil is selling for as much as $10 per bbl., enabling the owner of a well that produces 5 bbl. daily to turn a profit from a property that a year ago would have...
They say we will help [only] those we choose, our friends, and this and that. What are they going to do with the excess of their oil profit? Buy buildings? It is their right. They are sovereign countries. My job, my responsibility was to propose what...