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Though both provisions slid easily enough through the House, the Senate called for total deregulation of gas prices and rejected the oil tax, leaving it to a joint conference committee to thresh out a compromise. The committee has been stymied on the natural gas question and by the fractious and squabbling performance of its Senate members. As a result, it has not even got to the crude oil problem...
Biathlon, the Games' most eccentric sport, is surely the most demanding. Racers must push their bodies to the thresh old of fatigue, then steady to take dead aim at the four firing points along the trail. Particularly punishing are the 200-meterlong penalty loops that competitors in the relay race must run if they fail to break a target. It is all a far cry from the origins of the sport in Lapland, when dinner depended on a hunter's accuracy. Heikki Ikola of Finland could win the individual event; the Soviets and Finns will go head...
...view the proposed reforms as a thinly disguised stop-Agnew-in-'76 movement, figuring that most of the new delegates brought in under any reform schemes are not likely to be Agnewites. So far the White House indicates that it will not take sides but let the convention thresh out a response. If nothing else, the battles should be good theater in a script otherwise in search of surprise...
...Dome of the Rock and other Moslem shrines. The offer still holds. Since Moslems already administer the shrines and support them as well, Arab flags above the minarets would be largely a matter of symbolism. What national flags they ought to be, however, is a problem for Arabs to thresh...
...round of the N.B.A. draft, the Buffalo Braves turned the tables on Seattle by selecting Haywood on a gamble. Taking their lead from the SuperSonics, the Braves seemed to set a new rule of their own: grab whom you can any way you can, and then let the courts thresh...