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...large part of the windfall will go to motorists. As if to revel in that prospect, radio stations across the country last week offered cash prizes to the service-station operator who "bid" to sell his product at the lowest price. In Milwaukee, the Park Plaza Mobil station sold off 8,000 gal. of regular unleaded at 36.9 cents per gal. In Concord, Calif., the Sun Valley Auto Wash, a Chevron station, offered gasoline for .1 cents per gal., while in Diamond Bar, Calif., George Benitez's Shell service station went one better by offering...
...Author Jean-Francois Revel...
Fate would not let these cheery celebrants revel in the melting mush of snow, however, as the festival encountered more seasonably sunny weather. GEORGIA...
...enjoyed plenty of court time last night, as Roby gave the entire squad a chance to revel in the romp over the Engineers. But right from the start, a couple of old favorites got the Crimson in gear...
...Revel offers disappointingly few cures for democracy's failing condition. Instead, he quotes Demosthenes' advice to the Athenians: "Don't do what you are doing now." Revel then tersely suggests "genuine detente," which amounts to meeting the reality of the implacable contest with Communism. Such a posture would require, he admits, "almost total Western intellectual reconversion" and "unprecedented" coordination among the democracies. Small wonder, then, that he does not expect it to happen...