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...this either by liberalizing quotas or replacing them with a less restrictive tariff system, as a Nixon-appointed task force recommended-to no avail-a year ago. Such a move would have to be coupled with the building of a domestic reserve supply to guard against a Mideast shutoff. To do that, the import task force suggested storing domestically produced oil in salt domes or steel tanks. Another alternative would be to develop fields in areas where production costs are high. The wells would be capped and kept in reserve, but reopened in event of a possible interruption of foreign...
Automatic Shutoff. A graduate of Cambridge, Bird sharpened his claws in The Establishment, a satirical revue, and this year played character roles in three films. Off-camera, the short, puffy satirist is a disheveled and slightly laconic chap who retreats into the ranks of the anonymous. "He doesn't exist," says one of his few close friends, "except in his characters." He lives a secluded life in suburban Chiswick with his wife Anne, the daughter of former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Grant Stockdale, reads highbrow literary criticism and, he says, sits pondering for hours over his electric typewriter that...
...power failure also hit four military bases- Fort Bliss and Biggs Air Force Base in Texas, White Sands Missile Range and Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico- until emergency equipment cut in. The shutoff was traced to a malfunction in a regulator that feeds natural gas to the boilers in one of the company's two steam-powered generating plants. That plant was closed down, and the other shut itself off under the increased load. El Paso's red-faced Ray Lockhart hardly knew what to say. "It's unbelievable," he sputtered, "but it happened...
Cause of the fire was a defective shutoff valve in the oil burner which failed to function, causing the overflowing oil to ignite in the pit. Deputy Fire Chief Vincent Galvin declared, "It could have been a dangerous situation if it got out of the boiler room...
Olney today has a shoe factory and six bars-which Mayor Emanuel G. Miller regulates by keeping a "shutoff list" of drunks who cannot be served liquor. The town is also squirrel conscious, not only because squirrel chowder is a favorite dish at church suppers but because hundreds of Olney's squirrel population are rare albinos...