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Cleaning up oil spills is still very much a developing science. Such devices as booms to contain spilled oil and vacuum cleaners that suck it off the surface may work fairly well in the quiet waters of harbors or slow-flowing rivers. But the open ocean poses all but insuperable problems. Coast Guardsmen lost $200,000 worth of equipment when stormy seas forced them to abandon attempts to take off the Argo Merchant's cargo. The pounding waves rendered booms useless and stymied the Coast Guard's attempts to set the oil on fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil Is Pouring on Troubled Waters | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Bullard added, "We couldn't control the middle. On Tuesday [UMass] we did and we were able to suck their backs in." The Cornell fullbacks stayed back making it hard for Harvard to put the ball through and over for its three forwards...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Cornell Kicks and Swims Past Crimson Booters, 2-0 | 10/12/1976 | See Source »

Maraschino cherries? "I like to suck on them to get all the flavor out," Malcolm replies...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Warnings Don't Change Doctors' Diets | 9/29/1976 | See Source »

...dope, Paul Krassner, in the old style. Wolfe's former tone was something akin to deflating everyone's act: all the world were fakers and he covered it as reporter and participant. Now Wolfe's tone is me and the silent majority (though stupid) are right and you suck, not nearly as appealing for a guy who used to be thought of, by people like me, as a potential Jonathan Swift reincarnate...

Author: By Jim Kaplan, | Title: Big Bad Wolfe | 7/6/1976 | See Source »

Some hate King of Marvin Gardens Go suck an egg. It is a great find if you haven't found it yet. Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn and a smashingly beautiful girl (whose name we can't come up with but who does the sexiest tap-dance ever) make up the small society in this Rafelson risk...

Author: By Peter Kaplan and Jonathan Zeitlin, S | Title: Film | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

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