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...less crowded haunts. On his third trip to Panama, a favorite spot, Greene visited Panamanian Chief of State Omar Torrijos. "I have not even concluded whether I have done good or bad," Torrijos told his guest. "It's like going to the gas station. You pay and the pump returns to zero. Every time I awake I am back to zero...
...water to keep it running. The doctors at Charity tried to get parish officials to help me find a place to live with running water, but none of them lifted a hand." Within a year, the doctors personally raised enough money to buy him a bigger tank and a pump. The day they were to be delivered, his wife died...
...would pump away a sweltering midsummer week in Iowa, when beaches and lakes and Laker beckon? Just about anyone, according to TIME'S Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate, who monitored the cornbelt caravan, part of it on a borrowed ten-speed Gitane bike. The Ragbrai army, he reports, comes from all over the U.S. and from every way of life and income bracket. On the road, its members fall into five loose categories...
...future, because the weakening economy is now starting to drag down the U.S. growth rate to a level closer to that of the rest of the world. The reasoning is in sharp contrast to the White House's yearlong drive to persuade West Germany and Japan to pump up their economies rather than to have the U.S. rely on a slowing of its own; and it is typical of the wavering signals that the Administration has been sending out all along. The White House already projects that U.S. inflation will average at least 7.2% this year, nearly three times...
...York State legislature last year, Nik-O-Lok Co. of Indianapolis, which markets the device and collects some 25% of the revenue, has been working to regain its lost business. One solution: a device that enables gas stations to charge 25? for the use of an air hose to pump up a tire. Said Nik-O-Lok Manager Martin Miller: "If you think air is free, try blowing up a tire with your mouth...