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Here and there one can hear the experts mutter that maybe by 1990 we can have mass production of clean, comfortable, safe cars that average 50 or even 75 miles to the gallon. History is working for Adams' challenge. Enough people around Detroit remember Henry the First's caustic reminiscence in the 1920s. Said Ford: "All the wise people demonstrated conclusively that the new gas engine could not compete with steam...
Some Harvard administrators call it the Kennedy School Library. Some say the Engelhard Library. Others just mutter, "That damned library...
Everyday language contains countless reminders of Islam's basic belief that nothing on earth happens without God's will. Tell a Cairo taxi driver where you want to go, and he will answer "Inshallah " (If God wills). If a housewife finds tomatoes in the market, she may mutter "Al-hamdu lillah " (Praise be to God). The fellah in the Nile Delta will whisper "Bismillah" (In the name of God) as he sows his field. Egypt's President Anwar Sadat took a statesmanlike risk in making his historic trip to Jerusalem. Yet, as a devout Muslim, he knew that no mere...
...swath of virgin ice half a mile wide, out in the bay, the twin screws in the stern force the ship's nearly 2-in.-thick tempered-steel bow up over the edge of the ice. The ice bends, then yields with a deep, dull, grinding mutter. Below decks, it sounds as if the Mac is bumping along over a dry bed of rocks. Down in the engine room crewmen wear plastic ear muffs to muffle noise from the cutter's ancient 2,000-h.p. diesels. As the ice field gives way, the Mac slips back and forth...
Such tactics have caused oil executives to mutter about drawing up a blacklist of their own, perhaps to refuse to deal in the spot market with OPEC countries that will not honor their legally binding contracts. Said Clifton Garvin Jr., chairman of Exxon: "It is our belief that we should not buy oil at present high spot market prices." Others do not seem so confident. Last week Royal Dutch/Shell, a major customer of Iranian crude before the ouster of the Shah, was back in the loading queue for a new supertanker cargo at an undisclosed price...