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Real Outrage. White's main weapon-something less than a slingshot-is what he calls "the public's healthy attitude of skepticism" about the energy crisis. "The consumer is showing real outrage over the fact that oil companies' profits can skyrocket, while the Administration allows the price of 'old oil' to rise $1 per bbl. [to $5.25]," he says. "Since there is no retroactive expense in pumping from wells already producing, the increase is just a Christmas present from the Administration to the oil companies...
...there is always that slingshot...
Israel, of course, is not fighting the war with a slingshot...
...spilled sand, burned matchsticks, and unraveled corktips from cigarettes long decomposed that comforted through the nights of '41 and the sudden rush of heart at any glimpse of a light at sea. "You're mad," she whispers. "I'm randy," he smiles and snaps her garter again, boy-and-slingshot...
...goes well, the unmanned ship-Pioneer 10-will radio back the first closeup pictures of the giant planet, probe its intense magnetic fields and radiation belts and perhaps peek at one of the twelve Jovian moons. Then with the planet's powerful gravity acting as a slingshot, Pioneer will be hurled beyond Jupiter to begin the first voyage of a man-made spacecraft out of the solar system...