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...strike-prone unions, and an impressive array of social legislation, most notably the easing of Britain's archaic divorce and abortion laws. Wilson himself has also been a major factor. Even during the months of crisis, Wilson remained the unruffled, slightly bemused Oxford don calmly puffing his pipe and stoically waiting for better times. The most recent Harris poll shows that 52% of the people sampled would favor Wilson as Prime Minister again, while only 34% would prefer to have him replaced by Conservative Party Leader Edward Heath, whose own popularity remained conspicuously low even when his party...
...acerbic jazzy quality all his own. Today Woody is as much the debonair man of the times as ever. As he puts it: "If I had to play the same music in a locked-in style that I played in the '40s, I would have taken the gas pipe a long time...
...desperate to start right away. Scores of local businessmen who have invested in the project fear bankruptcy if work does not begin soon. Hundreds of construction workers and an estimated $40 million worth of heavy equipment stand idle in the thin spring sunshine: 150 miles of 48-in. steel pipe are rusting in stockpiles near Valdez. Last week Alaska Governor Keith Miller led a delegation of 150 men to Washington, where they lobbied hard for two days. By the time they flew home, they had encountered failure and success-both at the hands of Walter J. Hickel...
...know how to train a mule?" drawls pistol-toting Editor Dan Hicks Jr. between drags on a dead briar pipe. "First you got to hit him over the head with a two-by-four to get his attention. That's what I did to Madisonville. Now they know I'm here and won't go away. As long as I've got a typewriter and a piece of paper, they can't put me out of business...
Another 20 per cent of the losses from an uncontrolled car come from the crankcase. And another 60 per cent of those hydro-carbon losses come from the exhaust itself. Now practically all of the carbon-monoxide come from the tail-pipe of the car. And practically all of the oxides of nitrogen-the third pollutant-come from the tailpipe...