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...himself in any leadership position among truckers. In an interview last month, he said, "Truckers don't want somebody up there saying, 'Hey you're gonna do this or you're gonna do that,' so we've been very careful, in stating the facts, that we act as a funnel for all their problems and focus them as best we can. I suppose that there are some truckers that look upon us as being a leader or their leader. I don't. I just look on it as knowing more what's happening, or what should happen, than anybody else...
...drive more than a few miles to find unleaded gas. Agency officials also note that 300,000 small nozzles have already been produced and are in wide distribution. In a pinch, any stations that cannot get the small nozzles can pump the new fuel through standard nozzles and a funnel into 1975 cars. That leaves one further problem: Many gas stations that have only two pumps will not add a third to dispense unleaded, but will drop premium gas in favor of the new fuel. So drivers of some high-powered older cars built to run on premium...
Leaving the Cincinnati Riverfront Stadium the afternoon before the season's opening game. Witteman looked up to see a dark "funnel" looming in the distant sky. "At first I didn't know what it was," he recalled. By the next morning he learned that it was only one of many tornadoes that had smashed through eleven states (see THE NATION); the twisters had devastated half the city of Xenia, Ohio, only 60 miles away. Witteman called New York and was told to report on the Xenia tragedy-after the game...
...teams he uses a network of underground informants called "readers," who have contacts with coaches, players, owners, even locker-room attendants. Their job is to collect material about players' physical conditions, troubles with girl friends or wives, and other dicey dope. These "friends," as Martin calls them, funnel their findings to Las Vegas several times a week. This is an expensive intelligence operation...
...Cambridge facilities to keep track of local affairs. Gill is a self-confessed informer who worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation regularly and did sporadic work for the CIA. Her knowledge of the office and its staff and the agency's use of the Cambridge office to funnel her money is incontrovertible evidence that for some purpose the CIA has been following local activities through its Boston office...