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...often picked up by trucks or buses after crossing on foot, but no one met this group. The 31 started to blunder through the park. They were ill equipped to walk a mile. They carried suitcases filled with winter clothes, Bibles and perfume. The party had only 20 1-gal. plastic water jugs...
French vintners are attracted to California by the still vast U.S. market. Despite the growing popularity of wine in the U.S., Americans drink only 2 gal. of it a year per capita, vs. 29 gal. for the French. Europeans are also drawn by the large tracts of California's excellent uncultivated land. In the 86,000-acre Champagne district of northeastern France, Piper, for example, has only seven acres of the precious chalky soil. Now Piper has an investment in 1,200 acres of land in the Napa Valley...
...believe them. At the 10,000 stores in six Midwestern states where Natural Seltzer is sold, sales have grown 40% since the pop-for-plants campaign began. One Glenwood, Ill., woman is so enthusiastic about Natural Seltzer that she wrote asking where she could buy the water in 55-gal. drums. The firm is considering a slightly larger-size bottle, but nothing quite that...
Whatever their longer term views, independent observers agree that the U.S.S.R. will suffer some Western-style energy headaches in the next few years. Indeed, the Soviets are already suffering the first symptoms of the coming crunch. Gasoline prices have doubled during the past two years, to roughly $1.25 per gal. Plans to expand car production beyond the present million-a-year level have been shelved; talk of building a second large automobile and truck factory has ceased; and Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, has printed lengthy exhortations to conserve energy. Except at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, where many foreign...
...Volkswagen Rabbit powered not by a gasoline-drinking internal-combustion engine, but by a zinc-chloride "Electric Engine" developed by Gulf & Western Industries. The G & W power system, unveiled with much fanfare, is the latest step toward the return of the volts wagon. With gasoline heading toward $1.50 per gal., with the nation bent on reducing imports of OPEC oil, and with cleaner air high on Washington's list of priorities, the electric vehicle, or EV for short, is the focus of increasing scientific and marketing attention. The EVs reincarnation could profoundly affect how Americans get around...