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...nation's fuel short age. The legislators last week tacked a "sense of Congress" resolution onto an oil allotment bill, urging states to lower speed limits on federal aid roads by 10 m.p.h. or to 55 m.p.h., whichever works out higher. The resolution, which each state can heed or disregard as it chooses, is based on the desperate but indubitable logic that cars burn up less fuel at middle-range speeds. The Administration's energy experts, who are flat-out in favor of the resolution, claim that a car driven at 60 m.p.h. instead of 70 will consume...
President Nixon admitted that he had ignored "staff warning signals" of Watergate cover-up attempts. "With hindsight, it is apparent that I should have given more heed to warning signals I received along the way about the coverup," he said in a statement on Tuesday...
There are probably people in the Office of Government and Community Affairs who wish that Saundra Graham would heed the old adage, "Never look a gift horse in the mouth...
...gain its place in history, the Freund Committee will have to prove that a transfer of responsibility in the Federal judicial system will not isolate the Supreme Court from those submerged in prisons who presently expect that, if only for 15 seconds, the highest court in the land will heed their appeals...
American warplanes were already taking their toll in 1967. A ten-year-old kid, who guides a water buffalo plowing the rice fields, refuses to heed an air-raid warning, instead remaining with his animal. An anti-personnel bomb hits near him, killing the buffalo and tearing his shoulder to shreds with one of its sinister pellets. Greene shows him in a hospital, in screaming pain as his injury is being tended to. His agony, his tears, are a vivid reminder of the searing guilt no amount of post-war reparations could ever repay...