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...nation sits upon a "lake of oil," boasted Saddam Hussein al Takriti last week-referring to Iraq's estimated proven reserves of more than 32 billion bbl. Largely because of that petrol power, Iraq is emerging as a political force in the Middle East after years of xenophobic isolationism. The country's increasing importance was underscored by a visit to Baghdad last month by Jordan's King Hussein for discussions on a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement. Other recent callers have included French Premier Raymond Barre, British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington and his West German counterpart, Hans...
...memorable escape route is the Coventry-Stratford-Cotswolds Loop, a drive of 200 to 300 miles that can take a leisurely three or four days, with scarcely a neon sign in sight. (A Leyland Mini rents for about $100 a week, unlimited mileage, and sips petrol as if it were rare brandy.) Coventry has risen nobly from the ashes of its 1940 bombing. Next to the surviving western spire of the late medieval cathedral stands the great modern cathedral with vertical thrusts of rose-colored stone and Graham Sutherland's striking altar tapestry...
...Ralph Cooney Weiland Award, given to the player who exhibits spirited and aggressive play, was presented by the ex-Harvard mentor himself to center Leigh Hogan. Crimson goaltender Brian Petrol received the Canterbury Society Award for the Most Outstanding Ivy goalie, and defenseman Steve Janicek won the Donald Angier Hockey Trophy for being the most improved player during the year...
...Patton was often privately savage, especially when he thought Ike was being too cozy with the British. He noted that Eisenhower had started wearing suede shoes, "à la British." To his wife Beatrice he wrote that Ike "spoke of lunch as 'tiffin' and of gasoline as 'petrol.' I truly fear that London has conquered Abilene." Because Eisenhower said he regarded himself as an Ally rather than specifically an American, Patton said he was "damned near to being Benedict Arnold...
...extract your shale or tarsands. So I said let us start with the bottom price of $7; that is the government intake. Suddenly everybody started to shout foul. Why don't you use coal and shale for electricity or to heat houses, and keep this precious petrol for the petrochemicals for another 300 years to come...