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...petroglut and pushing prices higher. Most experts, though, felt that the war is unlikely to trigger an immediate crisis because the global economic slump continues to hold down energy use. But the energy situation will again become dangerous once world economies start growing. Writes Yergin: "The more likely flash point occurs when accidents interact with a market in which demand is rising, as was discovered in 1973 and 1979. Thus, the world enters the danger zone when economic activity and energy demands are on the upswing...
...mass gathering of people, machines, dripping oil, burning rubber, alcohol and rising fumes that draws them to Indy. The race itself is but one interesting diversion during The Event, The Party. Others return year after year to sit in the same seats and keep careful score as the cars flash by, but they are of a totally different breed. People who sit in the stands wear imitation Penske racing team windbreakers and "Five for Foyt" buttons. Infielders wear "God rides a Harley" T-shirts and buttons which plead, "Show Us Your Tits...
...accompanying her husband to Boston, where he was to undergo heart-bypass surgery, a pro-nuclear energy activist named Ellen Kaplan accosted the couple at Newark International Airport, baiting Henry Kissinger with the question, "Do you sleep with young boys at the Carlyle Hotel?" Quick as a flash, Nancy grabbed Kaplan's neck and said, "Do you want to get slugged?" Though unharmed, Kaplan pressed assault charges. Last week Newark Municipal Court Judge Julio Fuentes pronounced Nancy's reaction "spontaneous" and "somewhat human," then found her innocent. "Justice has been done," said Kissinger after the verdict...
...they are part of THEM." Advisers would never really help you select courses, "never, ever, ever." And if you insist on going to lecture and are bespectacled, you're in business: "People who wear glasses have a definite advantage because they can tilt their heads and let the light flash off the glasses. No one can see that their eyes are closed...
Save-More Car Rental. The Hangar Charcoal Steaks. Cheetah Nude Dancing. The Vault Self-Storage Warehouse. Rich's Place Package Goods and Cocktails. The signs flash by on this dreary four-lane strip. "Welcome to Wheeling-the village with feeling." Finally, painted in neat black-and-white script, a tastebud red alert: Le Français. The building looks like a suburban developer's vision of a French country inn, and the visitor pauses for a moment to savor the incongruity. Wheeling, Ill. (pop. 23,089), is a beer-and-pretzels kind of town with a sizable blue...