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...effective use of sanctions has convinced South Africa not to interfere, Dr. Verwoerd's continuing policy of strict neutrality belies predictions that supplies from South Africa will keep Rhodesia going indefinitely. The privately subsidized shipments of South African oil should not surpass 80,000 gallons per month, less than one day's rationed consumption. Continued application of sanctions, coupled with a British offer of acceptable settlement terms, could lead to negotiations within a few months...
...would like to see tax-burdened New Yorkers saddled with another tax of questionable necessity. Even if the aqueduct system were to be completely rid of leaks (which hardly seems likely judging from past attempts) there is still an ever-growing need for water, a need which will surpass the one that already overstrains supply. In 20 years it is estimated that Americans will consume 245 billion gallons more than their present rate of 355 billion gallons...
...transistor in his lower left molar rather embarrass him. Bribed by British intelligence (running short of certified spies, understandably) with the promise of a Cord Le Baron, Niven flies off to run interference for an oil sheik whose assassination is pending. Among the double-dealers he encounters, none surpass Françoise Dorléac, a wry, loose-limbed French beauty who wafts the spirit of high comedy through a role that would hardly seem worth the bother if a lesser actress played...
Both PAX and SDS hope to equal or surpass the estimated 10,000 to 25,000 turnout at last April's demonstration in Washington...
...know that what I write will never be artistically consummate, because I intentionally struggle to surpass the boundaries of art and thus harmony, the essence of beauty, is distorted... I wanted to be delivered from my own inner darkness and to turn it into light, from the terrible bellowing ancestors in me and to turn them into human beings. That was why I invoked great figures who had successfully undergone the most elevated and difficult of ordeals: I wanted to gain courage by seeing the human soul's ability to triumph over everything...