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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides reporting the gas crunch and truckers' revolt, TIME correspondents, like other citizens, also had to find ways to live with those crises. Levinson says he had to wait three weeks for his building's management to find a parking space for his personal solution to the gas crunch, a bicycle. Beaty got so tired of feeding his gas-guzzling (10 m.p.g.) truck, he now plans to "leave it forever" at his ranch in New Mexico. Then there is the plight of Atlanta Bureau Chief Joe Boyce, who was recently transferred from San Francisco. Recounts Boyce: "The moving...
...them as manager, coaches and trainer of a leghorn named Otis, have a special technique. Otis, at 109 oz. the heaviest entry, was driven past a Colonel Sanders store before the competition, they insist, and threatened with Shake 'N Bake. The best training routine seems to be to find an irascible female. The deepest instinct of roosters is to get to the ground fast and establish control over some turf...
...might retaliate by importing less oil. Startled reporters asked if the Government was yielding to oil-company blackmail. No, no, said Schlesinger, no company had made any such threat; he was merely worried that he has no authority to force oilmen to import as much crude as they can find...
...trucks to block access to refineries and fuel terminals, trying to disrupt the nation's commerce as much as possible. Warned Oscar Williams, an official of the Independent Truckers Association (30,000 members): "I can predict that when housewives in the major cities go to market and cannot find peaches, cherries or fresh meat, or find they have to pay double for these goods, there will be one hellacious uproar heard in Washington...
...also fragmented. "A trucker is definitely independent," says Roy Woodworth, an operator in Wilton, N. Dak. "He likes to do his own thing, so he is kind of hard to organize. We banded together out of necessity." Across the nation, hard-pressed Governors tried without success last week to find someone who could speak for the owner-drivers in their states. In Minnesota, Governor Al Quie gave up, declared a state of emergency, and called out the National Guard. About 100 representatives of small operators met in Washington to draw up plans with William Hill, chairman of the shaky Independent...