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Fully 62% of all U.S. service stations are now self-service operations, but the minority of dealers who offer full service tack on a few cents a gallon for pumping the gas, checking the tires and wiping the windshield. Many station owners still try to hold prices down in order to achieve high volume. "Rocky" Minetti, who manages an Esso station in Pittsburgh, maintained his price of 64.9? per gal. for unleaded right up to the end of last week, while ether stations in his area were charging...
...questions are relaxed, the answers as washed as California light. Finally, Ginny Weissman, editor of the Chicago Tribune's weekly television guide, has had enough. "I thought your show was in very bad taste," she says. "I kept wondering, why is it necessary to spit on the windshield? Why so much tobacco juice? Why such high sexual content? The camera seemed to focus a lot on men's behinds...
...Shah had gone, his departure was announced over Tehran Radio. The news set off an orgy of exultation throughout Iran. In Tehran, people danced in the streets and hugged and kissed one another in joyous abandon. "The Shah is gone! The Shah is gone!" they shouted. They garlanded their windshield wipers with flowers that seemed to dance in the air. They toppled statues of the Shah and his father, and cut his picture from bank notes. Demonstrators and army troops embraced. Red carnations sprouted incongruously from the barrels of soldiers' rifles...
...harm's way. Such precaution has become more and more sensible as they have been increasingly subjected to threats, insults and assaults by Iranians angered at Washington's support of the Shah. Many Americans have received threatening letters, shoved under a door or placed under a car windshield wiper. One anonymous letter warned several American families in the central city of Isfahan: "If you think of yourself as a human being, quit your job as soon as possible and leave our country. Otherwise you will be blamed for the consequences...
...quality control. Product testing can be as grueling as in a factory making any other kind of goods. To be sure that makeup will withstand long wear, Revlon sometimes requires a woman to sit for hours in a room where the temperature is 90° F. and the humidity 100%; windshield wipers have to clear away the steam from the windows so that analysts can peer...