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Curley can best be immortalized by designating the waiting lines for public transportation as "Curley Queues...
...third treaty commitment involving a possible cost to the U.S. was the American guarantee that it would provide oil from its own resources if Israel cannot buy its normal oil supplies on the world market. Of greater concern in Congress than the cost, if any, is the likely adverse public reaction to sending oil to Israel if there are shortages within the U.S. The Administration argues, however, that any Israeli oil deficiency would be an insignificant portion of U.S. supplies...
...foremost concern of Americans. White House aides scoff at any inflationary impact of the treaty. "It's just a flea bite on that elephant," says one. But as the near euphoria over the peace treaty fades and the costs linger−and most likely increase−congressional and public resistance to paying the price could yet prove a formidable problem...
...state have any unisex toilets appeared in public places as a result of the ERA. "I lived in Florida before moving to Hawaii, and the misconceptions over ERA were incredible," says Alice Ball, president of the Oahu YWCA. "I wish I could bring those people over to Hawaii to see how well it's working. ERA doesn't solve everything, but it has cleared out some of the undergrowth...
Next day, when NBC-TV broadcast portions of the tape, it became clear that the mass suicides were not entirely voluntary. If Prokes had known that the tapes were about to become public, said his tearful mother, "he would, at the least, have waited" before joining his fellow cultists in death...