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...hiking water temperatures to 22° C (72° F), the scientists caused the lobsters to reach the 1-lb. size in only 2½ to 3 years. Finally, the problem of cannibalism was solved by keeping individual lobsters in their own little "condominiums," as scientists dubbed the 3-gal. cubicles, from infancy to adulthood...
...Carter: "Many people actually thought that the President was punishing California because of me. I don't believe that." Then he turned over the microphone to Republican Senator S.I. Hayakawa, who promptly made the Marie Antoinette remark of the year: "Let gas go to $1.50, even $2 per gal. A lot of poor don't need gas because they are not working." Hearing that, Brown gingerly edged away from the microphone and headed for home...
...most Californians were too busy trying to beat the gas lines to worry about whether Carter deserved praise or censure. Some drivers offered station owners bribes of $10 to $20 for a full tank; others bought bootlegged gasoline for $6 per gal. or hired people to wait in line for them at $3.50 an hour. Johnny Rodgers, a professional football player, told a reporter that he got so impatient at waiting in his Rolls-Royce for gas that he bought the service station. Said he: "I bought it for my friends' convenience...
Gasoline prices had already soared to what most consumers felt were astronomical heights, up to $1.01 per gal. in Manhattan. Many drivers thought they were being charged too much. The enforcement office of the DOE's Economic Regulatory Administration was receiving 500 complaints a week of price gouging. But after auditing 2,000 stations' books, federal officials concluded that most of the nation's 171,000 gas station owners had not raised prices beyond the profit-margin limits imposed by the Government...
...latest reckoning of London's Brewers' Society, Australians and Czechoslovaks rank just behind the Germans, with annual per capita consumption of just under 36 gal. of beer. Americans, who consume nearly 23 gal. a year, rank eleventh...