Word: gallon
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...nation noted for its scarcity, Spain's 7 billion gallon surplus of sherry and domestic table wine would seem to be a bonanza. Not so. The average Spaniard scorns the local elixir in favor of spectacularly overpriced bottles of Scotch. Now Spain's Agriculture Minister, Adolfo Díaz-Ambrona, 59, has appealed to his countrymen to ease "the problem of domestic underconsumption." Noting that the Spaniards consume only half as much wine per capita as the Frenchmen, the government is starting a huge advertising campaign for wine-and doubling the import duties on Scotch...
...country fair for children of Government leaders on the White House lawn last week, Lynda showed up, with Chuck, in a mod cow-wrangler rig of mini-culottes-revealing an eye-popping expanse of leg-and a five-gallon hat that showed how far Hamilton's chic influence on her wardrobe had faded...
...through Darlington's straightaways at speeds up to 155 m.p.h. were anything but stock. Hidden under the electric-blue hood of Petty's Plymouth Belvedere GTX was a 426-cu.-in. "hemi-head" racing engine that generated 520 h.p. and burned gasoline at the rate of a gallon every three miles. The car's exhaust system, brakes, ignition and suspension had all been rebuilt at the Petty garage in Level Cross. The interior was stripped to make way for roll bars and a special, high-backed racing seat. Finally, the doors were bolted shut, so that Petty...
...parts of Los Angeles will start getting converted sea water from a nuclear-powered 150 million-gallon-a-day plant. The U.S. and Mexico may put up a billion-gallon-a-day plant on the Gulf of California in the 1980s. By that time, the cost of desalting water could be cut to 100 per 1,000 gallons. Speaking over the noisy hum of Key West's desalting plant last week, Vice President Hubert Humphrey ventured a bold prediction. With such breakthroughs, he said, desalination will eventually yield benefits "as great as those bestowed by the development of electricity...
...demonstration on the Delaware River, eleven gallons of 50% Polycomplex A were sprayed on a 110-gallon oil slick. In two minutes, only a thin brown film remained; soon that disappeared. Similar tests conducted in tanks ashore proved just as successful. Six parts of Kuwait crude oil-the type carried by the Torrey Canyon-were dispersed by one part of Polycomplex A in five minutes...