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...four Radcliffe grads from the '50s, is a swamp. As Jaffe's characters slog their way from college to their 20th reunion, they get progressively muddier. Each arrived at Rona's Radcliffe as a clean, bright stereotype--Jewish-American Princess Emily, WASPy golden girl Daphne, good-timing Southern gal Annabel, and studious but passionate Chris. Jaffe drags them through a mire of messy divorces, deformed kids, homosexual husbands, and personal failures. You begin to hope each traumatic life crisis will be the final quagmire, putting the poor girl out of her misery. But of course they all surface...
Sawhill proposed then radical methods of cutting fuel consumption, like setting thermostats at 78° F in the summer. Bicycling to a Face the Nation interview was one of the ways he dramatized the need for conservation. He also advocated a 10?-to 30?-per-gal. increase in the gasoline tax to cut consumption. The move displeased President Ford, who encouraged him to resign...
...study has concluded that by 1982 the use of gasohol will have spread to the point where it will be supplanting about 3% of gasoline consumption. As output of alcohol rises to meet demand, its high cost-commercially distilled pure alcohol now sells for as much as $1.85 per gal.-will come down, making the price competitive with gasoline's. Eventually, alky fans hope, the U.S. will catch up with Brazil: by the early 1980s some 15% of all automobile fuel used there will be straight alcohol...
...lives of four Radcliffe grads from the 50s, is a swamp. As Jaffe's characters slog their way from college to 20th reunion, they get progressively muddier. Each arrived at Rona's Radcliffe as a clean, bright, stereotype--Jewish American princess Emily, WASPy golden girl Daphne, good-timing Southern gal Annabel, and studious but passionate Chris. Jaffe drags them through a mire of messy divorces, deformed kids, homosexual husbands, and personal failures. You begin to hope each traumatic life crisis will be the final quagmire, putting the poor girl out of her misery. But of course they all surface...
...have to choose between gasoline at a higher price with no waiting and no bribes, or gasoline at 900 per gal. in one-to two-hour lines two to three times a week, I will choose the former...