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...fallen largely because of heavy competition from fish oil; whale oil is now $163 a ton, one-third less than it was a decade ago. One way to overcome the price drop might be to follow the Japanese example and process every part of a whale, from tooth to tail fluke. But this means a considerable extra investment in factory-ship equipment that the Norwegians are no longer willing to make, especially since their government, while urging them to continue whaling, has offered no subsidy to make it profitable. When Jahre tied up his factory ship Kosmos IV, it marked...
...total $472,720 award money. Only then did McLaren have 34 of his victorious Mark 6A racers reproduced and sold to competitors-including Dan Gurney, who has quite a reputation as a car builder himself. With that, McLaren set out to build a 1968 model that would show its tail pipes to the 1967s...
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...standard list Murphy added the Humphrey postulates-no feasts in his room, "just cheddar cheese, saltine crackers, diet root beer, Canadian Club and soda, 'wine of the country,' usually ten bottles of beer." Most of all, Murphy dreaded the "dragon's tail effect"-that frightening phenomenon in which a mere twitch at the tail's base can be come a paroxysm by the time it reaches the tip. By lingering an hour over schedule in one place, the Humphrey cavalcade can make a shambles of a whole day's tight schedule...
Lashed to a Halt. Bunting was ordered, signs made, mikes arranged, reception committees organized. Then the dragon's tail effect lashed out. On the morning before Humphrey was to arrive, Murphy got a call from Detroit. Humphrey had helped the cause too long and well at a discotheque fund-raising féte the night before in Manhattan. His doctor-mentor, Edgar Berman, had prescribed a good night's sleep. Humphrey would spend the night in Detroit. There went the schedule: scores of hotel rooms, the airport greeting, even the suburban housewives waiting for their chat. What about...