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Second Look. Lately, though, there have been multiplying signs that the long American romance with the big car may finally be ending. It has always been an expensive affair and even before the energy crisis, many drivers had concluded that the cost?in initial price, depreciation, repair bills?could no longer be borne. Over the past few years, unprecedented numbers of Americans have been buying smaller, cheaper autos. Now the energy crisis has focused on the U.S. car, which consumes 28% of the nation's petroleum; gasoline shortages are forcing multitudes more to take a second look at their prized...
...converter, however, raises some new and very sticky difficulties of its own. Most important is the fact that it cannot be used with leaded gasoline, since even a trace of lead would foul the device beyond repair. As a result, the EPA has ordered the oil industry to make lead-free gasoline available at all major gas stations by next summer. Another problem is that the converter emits minute amounts of yet another pollutant -a fine mist of sulfuric acid. One solution might be for refineries to reduce the amount of sulfur in gasoline...
...customers returning to a North Side Chicago shoe-repair shop for new heels or a shine are confronted by a discreetly blackened window and an avocado green door-firmly latched. The new tenant, Artist Ron Rolfe, is not interested in their patronage. All he wants is the privacy of home in his converted storefront...
...once agreed to help his best friend, Al Cowlings, repair a rocky romance with Marguerite Whitley. O.J. juked overtime on that task. When the University of Arizona offered Recruit Prospects Cowlings and Simpson the use of a rented car, Simpson ended up driving Marguerite around town. Before long, Marguerite and O.J. were married. Yet Cowlings today still considers Simpson his best friend...
...peddling record quantities of liquor-everything from local schnapps to $20 imported bottles of American sour mash-to Germans who apparently find the prospect of staying home Sunday unbearable without a stiff belt. With weekend accident rates declining, insurance companies say they are pondering pressure to lower rates. Repair shops, crammed for the past several years, have seen their business decline only marginally...