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...search of ways to beat the oil-import bind, some policymakers are beginning to look at an idea for motor fuel that was tried by American farmers in the 1930s: a mixture of 90% gasoline and 10% alcohol known as gasohol. Already it is selling briskly at about 500 filling stations in the Midwest Plains states, where the corn from which alcohol is commonly made is abundant. The blend is hailed by its champions as a wonder that yields about the same mileage as unleaded gasoline and offers an ever renewable source of energy. Moreover, gasohol could, if it replaced...
...stood up in his shirtsleeves last week in the sweltering 88° heat of Melbourne, Australia, and made a surprising announcement. Said Chairman Henry Ford II to his firm's local managers: "By the end of this year I will have relinquished my executive responsibilities with the Ford Motor...
...post; both are highly able, although less colorful than Ford. Meanwhile, Henry's brother William Clay Ford, 54, is expected to remain as chairman of the executive committee. Henry Ford may stay on as chairman of a revised finance committee and a director. Said one Ford Motor Co. insider: "As long as he has the power to hire and fire chief executives, don't count...
...studying various neurotransmitters, notably acetylcholine, has found that their production can be increased by diet. Indeed, by upping a patient's intake of foods rich in lecithin-a precursor of acetylcholine -especially egg yolks, meat and fish, such disorders as senility, manic-depression and the loss of motor control associated with the degenerative disease Huntington's chorea, or tardive dyskinesia, can be substantially alleviated...
...Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge, the desk clerk seems first to rebut, then to affirm, Carmen's assessment. "Been keeping up with all the presidential candidates traipsing through Manchester?" "Yeah," he says brightly. "A couple of them were right here at the lodge." "Which ones?" A gulp. "I can't remember which ones...