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...sales rose too-to 5.7%, or .5% more than a year ago, by one preliminary estimate. Generally, high profits are good news: they fuel the engine of a free-enterprise economy. But in this case, the gains are one more sign of an overheating boom -and, more specifically, they threaten to start the wage-price spiral whirling again by prompting labor leaders to make outsize pay demands...
...gasoline shortages appear (see ENVIRONMENT), and further price increases threaten, how many miles of travel a car gets out of a gallon is once again of concern to U.S. drivers. Moving nimbly to the aid of motorists, the Government's Environmental Protection Agency last week published a fuel-economy rundown on every 1973 auto, foreign or domestic, sold in the U.S. The results were painfully predictable: gas mileage drops with every pound of weight and power accessory. Says Eric Stork, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Mobile Source Air Pollution Control: "Far and away the easiest way of reducing fuel consumption...
...somewhere in the middle of the city and unwanted, remembering missed football tackles, lost fights, the contempt of strangers, the sound of laughter from behind shut doors. I held my valuables in my right hand, my literal identification. None of it was irreplaceable, but to cast it off would threaten my essence, the shadow of myself that I could see on the floor, my name...
...Hanover strongmen threaten to go one-two in the shot and javelin, so shot-putter Jay Hughes and javelin-thrower Adrian Tew have their work cut out for them...
...ambassadors. Yakov Malik insisted that any resolution on the Middle East make reference to the nonuse of force in international relations. Chinese Ambassador Huang Hua denounced the Soviet proposal as "downright fraud," since "along the northern frontier of China it [the Soviet Union] has stationed a million troops to threaten China." Could this, asked Huang, "be called nonuse of force in international relations...