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...male fantasy of lust with no limits. "Baby Dietrich!" exclaimed Glamour Photographer Francesco Scavullo as he shot a fashion layout of the abrasively photogenic young (24) woman. If she could get her voice around a song the way she moves her shape for the camera, she would be pure nitro...
...mile section known locally as Chemical Valley are still "the smell of meat and potatoes." That is because these factories pay the wages of 10,000 people in a state that suffers the highest unemployment rate in the nation (16%). Says Bob Harbert, 36, a cab driver in Nitro, W. Va. (named for a plant that produced nitroglycerin during World War I): "Jobs are scarce here. Nobody thinks about the dangers. If something's going to happen, it's going to happen...
Dave Evans Nitro...
Students slaving over their books got a little unexpected relief this January, when the state fire marshall rushed to the Science Center to dilute a batch of nitroglycerine prepared by a freshman working on science experiments. The building was evacuated in mid-exam, the nitro was defused, and before long the college was back to mid-winter normal--and more exams...
...irony is that Ford's engines might well have passed muster if the tests had been properly performed. As far as emissions go, the engines differ very little from those in current models. The only new federal requirement is installation of a device designed to limit oxides-of-nitro-gen emissions to 3 gm. per mi. or less. The same system is already required on cars sold in California, though the emissions limit there is 3.2 gm. per mi., and Ford's 1972 engines met that standard -indicating that at worst the engines for the 1973 models...