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Once, ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) was John Banzhaf's only pressure group. Now he has CAP, PUMP, LASH, TUBE and SOUP. Startled industries and badgered regulatory agencies are suddenly painfully aware that Banzhaf's Bandits are abroad in Washington...
...that the Abu Zabal raid would not delay the decision. But a postponement would surprise nobody, for Nixon is bound to be faulted no matter what he decides. If he sells more jets to the Israelis, the Arabs warn that they might move against the American companies that now pump some $2.5 billion in oil from Arab wells annually. If Nixon refuses to sell the jets, the Israelis might be tempted to mount a major offensive before their neighbors have time to gain military seniority. Only last week, Dayan noted that by next summer "the Egyptians will have more tanks...
...drilling in the channel. Reason: a special presidential panel recommended further drilling to relieve the pressure that pushed the oil to the surface. While some critics dispute this approach, a consortium of four oil companies (Union, Gulf, Mobil, Texaco), soon to be joined by Sun Oil, continues to pump 30,000 barrels of oil a day from the waters off Santa Barbara...
Garth, the son of a World War I pilot turned agricultural inspector, went farthest in formal study, getting through his first year in music at the University of Western Ontario before taking to the road. Before that he had helped his father rebuild two pump organs and worked through much of Bach's keyboard music (The Well-Tempered Clavier, some 300 chorales). He also briefly played sepulchral organ in his uncle's funeral parlor. "It was terrible," he recalls. "A terrible business...
...Keep in mind that the primary purpose of words is not to express meaning but to pump adrenalin. Use active, blood-tingling verbs like "smash" or "liberate." If anybody disagrees with you, call him imperialist, authoritarian or at least manipulator for the power elite...