Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another week, gas stations almost everywhere kept short hours, closed on the weekend or limited sales to a few gallons because supplies were short, by 5% to 20% of 1978 levels. In most states it was enough of a pinch to make gasoline a major topic of concern, but not enough to force Americans to change lifestyles. In California, however, long lines of cars formed at every open pump, as angry and panicky motorists tried to buy every drop available...
...outside of California, the vast majority of Americans apparently were making few changes in their travel habits or vacation plans, not even for the Memorial Day weekend, when gasoline supplies will be particularly short. Half a million people, traveling by cars, pickup trucks and garishly decorated vans-more than 200,000 vehicles in all -are expected at the Indianapolis 500 auto race. What will happen if there is not enough gas to get them home? Replied State Police Major Forest Cooper: "We are very concerned...
...hope that if peace goes forward successfully, the immense military budgets can eventually be reduced. "When we speak about the cost of peace," says an Israeli banking official, "we cannot forget the cost of war." For the present, the "caravan" of the peace process was still advancing: this weekend both Egypt's and Israel's beleaguered but determined leaders will meet to preside over Israel's withdrawal from the city of El Arish in the northern Sinai...
Violence on TV, despite protests, does not seem to be declining. Last month Professors George Gerbner and Larry Gross of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications came out with their tenth annual Violence Profile. On the basis of a prime-time and a weekend sampling, they report that crooks still make up 17% of all television characters (vs. 1% or less in real life), and that 65% of them are involved in violence. The damage, Gross argues, does not lie in rare incitements to acts of violence, but in the attitudes and views of the world...
...other weekend action, a joint Crimson-Nieman Fellows squad once again proved the superiority of the press over the academic community by trouncing the Sociology Department...