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Most Americans cannot yet get excited about that problem, but many of them have already seen the effects of the growing energy shortage. During the past three summers, there have been scattered brownouts across the nation. These cutbacks on voltage, designed to preserve overloaded generators, caused TV pictures to shrink...
Last winter, for the first time in memory, fuel-oil supplies ran ominously low. From Denver to Des Moines, schools were closed for lack of heat, and production in fuel-short factories came to a halt. This spring has already seen scattered instances of gasoline shortages and service-station shutdowns...
Never another visit to Tralfamadore? "No!" says Kurt Vonnegut, squinting into the sun. "Never again." Breakfast of Champions is ultra-Vonnegut-marked by melancholy and self-indulgence, most visible in the graffiti-style drawings he has scattered through it. But it is a true creation, and true creations do not...
Bill Hands scattered ten hits and Bobby Darwin, Larry Hisle and Joe Lis hit home runs as the Minnesota Twins buried the Boston Red Sox 10-3 under a 14-hit attack.
And those reasons soon become clear. The film moves from Santore's funeral back a week to the day in which Santore and the Brazilian consul to Uruguay were kidnapped by the Tupamaros. The Tupamaros operate with both efficiency and care. They brandish guns but don't use them. The...