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...Toyota and the Nissan Motor companies have also donated $1 million each toward the center...
PRICES. The Commerce Department announced another sharp jump in retail fuel prices during December, ranging from 4.4% for gasoline to 11.4% for home heating oil. Americans now pay about 20% more than they did a year ago for gasoline and motor oil, and nearly 47% more for heating oil. Many people are paying even more than that; Internal Revenue Service agents found that an astounding four out of every ten gas stations that they visited in California and New York were overcharging by as much...
Just how much William needed Louise became evident during their two-year courtship. On a motor trip through Maine in the summer of '59, he got her to help him steal three brand-new canoes and a trailer. By the time they were married on New Year's Day, 1960, she had evolved from a dutiful daughter, honor student and respected Chicago schoolteacher into an accomplished shoplifter and companion of an obviously disturbed...
Energy Savings. Indeed, school and police authorities blamed the darkness, in part, for a number of motor-vehicle accidents involving children, including a 16-year-old boy in suburban Chicago, run over en route to school. Californians were chilled by the brutal rape of a 16-year-old girl in Cupertino, who was attacked as she crossed a vacant lot on her way to school. Most schools found it impossible to adjust their hours because of union contract rules, the after-school commitments of school bus drivers and inconvenience to working parents. Thus, many school authorities recommended that children wear...
...accidents in the evening are often caused by the fact that at that time many drivers' reactions are slowed-some are tired out from the day's labor, others have had too many after-work cocktails. Driving home in daylight should help compensate for those factors. Indeed, motor-vehicle fatalities and serious accidents dropped 3.8% in Britain when that country was on year-round D.S.T. from October 1968 through October 1971. Some law-enforcement experts had suggested that the change might cut violent crimes, since they also peak in the evening. That was not the case...