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...billion, militants blocked the track of the new high-speed TGV train for one hour. Traveling salesmen got into the act with a horn-tooting, traffic-jamming demonstration in Paris' Place de la Concorde to demand new benefits, including tax-free gasoline (the current price of $2.77 per gal. includes $1.01 in taxes). Even during a generally triumphant visit to his former constituency in western Burgundy this month, there was an undercurrent of rural dissatisfaction. Said one protest sign along the way: WE WANT TO LIVE, NOT JUST SUBSIST...
...minus-nine minutes, a slight drop in liquid-oxygen pressure was detected in the huge 526,000-gal. external fuel tank and in one of three oxygen tanks carried aboard the orbiter. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson at Mission Control in Houston stopped the countdown and consulted other technicians. The problem did not seem serious. Pressure in the tanks could be adjusted by warming the oxygen with on-board heaters. Ground computers guiding the launch were instructed to ignore the pressure drop, and the countdown continued...
...imported oil from the desert kingdom, but prices may rise because its other suppliers like Mexico-and even those in the U.S.-are likely to move up to the new unified OPEC price. The cost of gasoline in the U.S. is expected to increase eventually by about 20 per gal...
...grease stains. While the walls are still lined with tires, fan belts and hub caps, the steel hoists once used to lift cars now support jeans, sweaters, shirts and skirts bearing 20 different designer labels, including Bill Blass, Calvin Klein and Sasson. The gas is discount: $1.26 per gal. So are the threads: $29.99 for a pair of Diane Von Furstenberg jeans, compared with $41 at a San Jose department store...
...introduction of the 1960s-style "muscle car." An optional turbocharged, V-8 en gine (17 m.p.g.) will power some Mustangs and Capris from 0 m.p.h. to 60 m.p.h. in 7.5 seconds. That kind of dragstrip macho has been virtually extinct since the end of the era of 300-per-gal. gasoline...