Word: gallon
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...next eleven years into the federal highway program. That would permit the building of a 41,000-mile interstate network to be completed in the early 1970s. Resisting heavy pressures from the oil and trucking lobbies, the House voted to bankroll the bill by continuing the current 4?-per-gallon tax on gasoline and diesel fuel (both were slated to drop to 3? next month), and to boost taxes on trucks, tires, inner tubes. The bill now goes to the Senate, which is expected to examine it critically...
...Chancellors always refresh themselves during the tedious budget speech. "If there is any speculation as to what this liquid I am drinking is," said Lloyd, "I can say it has certain medicinal properties . . . For every gallon you drink the revenue benefits to the tune...
...Which last week placed first in the Mobilgas Economy Run from Los Angeles to Chicago, with an average of 32.68 miles a gallon. Other winners in their classes: Corvair Monza for four and six-cylinder compacts with automatic transmission (29.35 m.p.g.), Buick Special for eight-cylinder compacts (25.09), Plymouth Savoy for standard-sized cars (23.15), Ford Fairlane for low-priced V-8s (21.33), Chrysler Newport for medium-priced eights (19.9), and Cadillac for high-priced eights...
...Gallon Hat. Only a few months ago, Hassan complained impatiently to a friend: "Here I am, 31, and I haven't ruled yet." Last week the unanswered question was how Hassan would rule. His father was a benevolent autocrat who had authorized a "consultative" assembly in 1956 but had never permitted national elections. He chose his own Premiers, who were responsible only to him. But he was hailed as the man who'se stubborn resistance wrested Moroccan independence from the French, widely admired as a de voted family man, revered by the devout as the spiritual head...
...close friends last year was U.S. Navy Lieut. Commander Leon Blair, a brash, talkative Texan and former public relations officer at the U.S. naval base at Kenitra. Blair shipped in pecan trees from Texas for Hassan's garden, prairie dogs for the royal zoo, ten-gallon hats for Hassan's princely head. When left-wing Premier Abdallah Ibrahim protested Blair's moving into the palace as a "liaison officer.'' it cost the Premier his job. King Mohammed mournfully took over as Premier, named young Hassan as his deputy, and entrusted him with vast authority...