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Jackson's next stop is 15 miles and seemingly 15 light-years away. It is Del Rio Customs, a garage that equips cars with elaborate racing stripes and mag wheels. The place gives a visitor the feeling that two dozen Hell's Angels are about to wheel in looking for some feral fun. When anonymous death threats were made against Jackson before last year's World Series, he hired beefy Proprietor Tony Del Rio as his temporary bodyguard...
Gleaming Speedster. "I can let my hair down at Del Rio's," Jackson says. "The place is like an amusement park." When he is not speeding off on one of Del Rio's roaring motorcycles or playing pinch and tickle with a girl in the middle of a stack of tires, Jackson exchanges stories with Tony and the boys or busies himself rebuilding the motor on his 1940 Chevrolet...
...country's stern wage-price controls. Strikes are banned, what unions exist are kept weak, and yearly wage increases are held below productivity gains. The price index is also blatantly manipulated. It is heavily weighted to living costs prevailing in the state of Guanabara (where Rio de Janeiro is located), where prices trail those in the rest of the country. Last year many prices posted by the government and used in the index were well below the prices that goods were actually selling for. Despite indexing, in the five years ending in 1970, the real purchasing power...
...Rio Blanco sponsors say that they are willing to spend another $1.5 million for additional drilling to recover gas from the lower cavities. But even if they can, the future of nuclear blasting for natural gas looks quite bleak. The program is already under attack from environmentalists who fear that the atomic explosions may damage buildings on the surface, trigger earthquakes and leave behind dangerous radiation. The General Accounting Office recently noted that nuclear recovery of gas could be costlier than its proponents originally thought; the cracks created in the sandstone by the A-bombs may close faster than...
...commission announced that it will help foot the bill for testing an alternate, nonnuclear gas recovery scheme called hydraulic fracturing. Employing high-pressure fluids rather than explosions to crack the gas-bearing sandstone, the test will take place only about a mile from the site of the multikiloton Rio Blanco fiasco...