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...wheels of then-station wagons in the predawn blackness of Miami. Young couples in Manhattan, armed with sandwiches and hot chocolate, invite friends along for an evening of gasoline shopping. Connecticut executives regale each other with lurid tales of mile-long queues and two-hour waits at the pump. Otherwise sane citizens are in the cold grip of the nation's newest obsession: gasoline fever...
...their tanks. As a result, the nation's 117 million vehicles have become rolling reservoirs of gasoline, making the shortage worse. "I know I need only a quarter of a tank to fill up," said a housewife in Westchester County, N.Y., as she awaited her turn at the pump. "I feel guilty about it, but I can't help myself." For millions of Americans, happiness is a full tank...
...oilmen argue persuasively that they need even richer earnings to finance the heavy costs of stepping up exploration, leasing new oil fields and building refineries-a point that they are emphasizing in a quickly mounted advertising barrage. The Chase Manhattan Bank estimates that by 1985 the industry will pump an awesome $800 billion into such ventures...
...other hand, long lines were still forming at gas stations in many major cities, prompting some dealers to require their customers to telephone for appointments at the pump. In Oregon, a voluntary gasoline rationing plan began. Motorists with license plates ending in even numbers will buy gasoline on even-numbered dates; those with odd numbers will buy on odd-numbered dates...
...Boss Man Jones. "He's got me in the coffin, but he can't nail me," Ali boasts. "He fights like a woman." Ali clinches with Jones and dances round the ring at his isolated, frontier-style training complex, where he sleeps in a cabin equipped with pump-handle faucets and coal stoves. "Tie him up," Ali laughs. "Waltz with him. That's the way you stall for time...