Word: gas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nobody loves a gas...
...years, the great American promise was not a chicken in every pot but a big car in every garage. No more. With fuel prices edging into three digits, buyers have been thinking less about class and more about gas. As a result, car lots are clogged with 2 million unsold autos, many of them yesterday's glamorous giants, and dealers have become desperate...
Some less charitable owners are leaving their cars in high-crime neighborhoods in hopes that the gas hogs will be stolen, so that they can collect insurance for them. In Boston, car thefts for the first three months of this year were up 44% over the same period last year. In New York City, police estimate that one-third of all auto thefts involve insurance fraud. At the same time, police believe that owners of fuel-efficient cars should take extra precautions against thieves. Said New York City Detective Philip Crepeau: "Like anybody else, the thieves go where the market...
...money anyway. Says Rich Schwagerl, a conservatory student who plays jazz in a Boston marimba-vibraphone duo: "We're having a good time, making enough to cover expenses -gas, a few sodas-and catching a few rays." Moreover, says his partner, Richard Sprince, "good-looking babes come up and admire our musicianship...
Jones located another chopper body and tied it more firmly to the rock. Demolition Expert William Balles loaded it with C-4 plastiques, 50 gal. of gas, and black powder wrapped in naphthalene-a mix designed to make the explosion as fiery as possible. A special "cable-cutting" charge was planted to send the Huey tumbling at just the right moment. When the copter blew up, on cue this time, the sound was heard 40 miles away. One local radio station called it a sonic boom...