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Joseph Willman of Sterling Heights, Mich., wanted to know what the President would do if Uganda's Idi Amin detained Americans. (Answer: Keep cool.) Pete Belloni of Denver asked if there would soon be a 25?-a-gal. tax on gasoline. (No.) Mark Fendrick of Brooklyn wondered if his baseball team, the Yankees, would be allowed to play an exhibition game in Communist Cuba. (Perhaps.) Phyllis Dupere of Rehoboth, Mass., asked if Jimmy Carter would be willing to sign on for a space-shuttle mission. (He's "probably too old to do that," but Amy might some...
...sweet vulnerability. Mary could not bring herself to call Lou Grant by his first name; a daughterly side of her character would not permit it. Her sexual attraction had a fascinating ambiguity. Her allure never threatened anyone. Women watchers of the show thought of her roughly as a Great Gal. Men, who usually found her immensely sexy, also felt somehow protective about her. Several years ago, when Mary Richards spent the night with a date, men all over the country were inconsolable; they felt betrayed...
...after he buys his car," he laments. "That's not soon enough. We'd like to sell him shock absorbers and other things." The company is now also operating three self-service gas stations. The Midas touch, it seems, is still there. One station pumped 115,000 gal. in its first month, almost four times as much as the average brand station...
...propaganda pamphlet, doesn't help--one hardly knows whether to laugh or cry at the following outburst from the American heroine to her Soviet tormentor: What's the matter, Ivan? Too used to muscle-bound, hod-carrying Russian women? Can't get used to the idea of a liberated gal from the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave laughing at your sorry tactics...
...temperatures dropped, reserves began running down. Two weeks ago the Government changed the rules of a complicated subsidy program in order to help New England oil wholesalers buy expensive foreign oil, rebuild supplies and hold consumer bills steady. Heating-oil prices are up only 2? to 3? per gal...