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...already required on cars sold in California, though the emissions limit there is 3.2 gm. per mi., and Ford's 1972 engines met that standard -indicating that at worst the engines for the 1973 models are very close to satisfying the federal requirements too. That thought can only gall Ford executives further as they try to calculate the cost of what must have been the most expensive tune-up in auto history...
...splendour of her breasts," wrote an early biographer, "made madmen everywhere." He might also have mentioned her energy, ambition, courage, cunning, charm, wit and wardrobe. It took all those things, and plenty of gall besides, to turn Eliza Gilbert into Lola Montez, famous dancer, mistress of Franz Liszt and Alexandre Dumas père, intimate of kings and prime ministers, de facto ruler of Bavaria during Ludwig I's declining years, and belle of the California gold rush...
Columbia placed three men on both the foil and sabre all-star squads. Foil men Gary Pepper, Bob Berger, and Greg Gall, along with sabre fencers Bruce Soriano, George Bartos, and Tom Losonszy were the Lion's all-league selections. Penn's Ernesto Fernandez and Brooke Makler combined with Tatrallyay to make up the epee team. Yale's Steve Blum and Princeton's Rich Lawrence in sabre and foil, respectively, rounded out the all-star selections...
...What tastes like honey in your mouth may turn into gall in your belly. Already women have more legal freedom than they know what to do with...
...several substances that may accumulate as "stones" in the gall bladder, cholesterol is the most common culprit. Because doctors have not known how to dissolve such stones, the usual remedy has been surgery-an estimated 350,000 operations annually in the U.S. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., now report in the New England Journal of Medicine that, in four cases out of seven, doses of a natural body chemical have succeeded in dissolving cholesterol gallstones. This type of stone, it appears, forms when bile (a digestive substance secreted in the liver and stored in the gall bladder...