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As the summer driving season approaches, high-compression concern has been building up among the motoring public over the shortage of gasoline. Nearly 2,000 independent filling stations across the nation have either run out of gas completely or are staying open only on a day-to-day basis. Officials...
Last winter, for the first time in memory, fuel-oil supplies ran ominously low. From Denver to Des Moines, schools were closed for lack of heat, and production in fuel-short factories came to a halt. This spring has already seen scattered instances of gasoline shortages and service-station shutdowns...
Certainly the credibility of Press Secretary Ziegler has been shattered, although it was compromised long ago. Last week Clark Mollenhoff, the Des Moines Register's Washington bureau chief (and a former Nixon adviser), dramatized the growing feeling of many newsmen about Ziegler. At a White House press briefing, Mollenhoff contended...
Texaco, the nation's largest marketer of gasoline, is already allocating its distributors only as much fuel as they received last year, even though demand is up. Gulf has declined to continue supplying diesel fuel to the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, and the city's 606 buses...
What grave misdeed had they done? They had been found guilty of smashing the windows of a barber shop, a gas station and two unoccupied autos with BBs fired from slingshots and of dropping balloons filled with water from a fifth story onto passing cars. It was precisely the boyishness...