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There is no bathroom. A funnel in the semiprivate stairwell up front is supposed to serve the truly desperate. Thank God, rest stops are frequent. There is a tape deck, though, with speakers fore and aft. As we pull out, the Beatles pump out Here Comes the Sun. And supper starts as some kind of spontaneous combustion. "I've got organic carrots," says Linden, rummaging in a satchel. Before you know it, dates, French bread, salami and a bottle of Mr. Wente's best Grey Riesling are passing from hand to hand. Monksee announces that he will...
Junior Larry Zigerelli handles the point guard chores in Glenn Fine-like style, while Dick Shea and Frank Maturo pump in baskets from all over the floor, averaging 15 points apiece each game...
...Saudi Arabia has helped to make up for the loss of Iran's oil by boosting its own output nearly 30% to some 10.3 million bbl. a day, close to the maximum that it is presently possible to pump from the Saudi fields. Iraq, Nigeria and Kuwait have also increased production somewhat. Right now, total world production is off by about 2 million bbl. a day. That is roughly equal to about 4% of global petroleum consumption, or more than enough to supply all the daily needs of Britain or Canada...
...that the disruption of deliveries would be only brief, and little was done to arrange for alternative sources of supply if the troubles continued into winter. Belatedly they are now rushing to get apartments and factories to convert to oil heat-there is also an effort under way to pump Soviet oil down from the main pipeline network to the north. That, however, is an enormous engineering task, and even though the gas-rich U.S.S.R. has a surplus of the fuel available to ease the crunch in the Transcaucasus, the troubles in Iran could be long over before the pipeline...
...lover in 1973. He was convicted of killing the two after first having breakfast with them at his ex-wife's apartment. He had used a double-barreled derringer, reloading it at least eight times, to stitch an eleven-shot circle in her back and to pump six shots into her boyfriend. At his trial, Humphreys claimed that he could not remember what had happened, except that he had cuddled his former wife in his arms and begged...