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...there are other potential oil sources, although admittedly uncertain and still in the far future. Some experts envision a North American energy market that would tap Canada's vast, undeveloped supplies. When the world's oil wells are fully depleted, there will still be immense reserves locked away in tar sands and shale. By then, nuclear energy will help to supply the "highenergy society." All this does not mean that Alaskan oil is unnecessary to the U.S. It does mean that it can be developed gradually and with suitable environmental controls. Its impact should be judged primarily in relation...
...watched the construction workers eat lunch in downtown New York. I began to understand why they wanted to beat up college students. They have to build buildings that no one wants, and then they have to eat lunch on the smelly, steaming tar and blacktop. Or they have to sit on concrete steps, eating a mushy egg salad sandwich about two feet from blaring car horns and smoking exhaust pipes. It they work near Fifth Avenue, they may have to watch women- the models that TV has told them to call beautiful- parade in front of them. Magazines...
...verse of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, the lyrics of It's a Drag were written by Milt Robertson and are a pastiche of radio and TV anti-smoking spots. "I don't have no more blood in my bloodstream," Felicia sings raspily, "just a mixture of tar and nicotine. So give it up, put it down and leave it there." She smiles brightly through her recital of nicotine terrors, gets progressively hoarser, ends in a thoroughly convincing coughing fit. Created by Sanders and her husband, Pianist-Arranger Irving Joseph, It's a Drag is a confession...
...longer fearing surge of feathered tar...
...only after several drinks. But the man had a machine-gun wit that he leveled on pomposities, pretensions and do-good liberal cant of any kind. Sample burst of fire: Mrs. Prentice: "What's Miss Barclay doing in the therapy workshop?" Dr. Prentice: "She's making white tar babies for sale in color-prejudice trouble spots...