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Maybe the President would have given up his precious tapes much more generously had we only offered him an additional tax deduction for them...
...crusty radio character named Titus Moody told the world that he refused to own a radio because "I don't hold with furniture that talks." Like many other items of the '40s, that furniture and that talk have assumed the burnished quality of rare and precious antiques...
...might appear to be the last thing the U.S. should do during the energy crisis. But, say GM and the EPA, the loss of oil in producing unleaded gas will be more than balanced by the improved gas mileage that cars with converters will get. While the debate rages, precious time is slipping by. Detroit has an extra year to cleanse auto exhaust completely, but the job looks as difficult as ever...
...many stations are limiting them to 50, 25 or even 10 gal. at a time. So the drivers must chase from truck stop to truck stop, wasting precious driving time, to keep their four-miles-to-the-gal-lon rigs running. The drivers want a generous allocation of fuel to the truck stops to keep them on the road...
...done, says Colony, with minimal harm to the delicate ecology of the semi-arid region. Environmentalists wonder whether all companies would be so careful. If they were not, occasional rains would leach residual salts out of the wastes, sweep them into streams, and thus contaminate the area's precious water supplies...