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When Atlantic City threatened last year to change the names of its Baltic and Mediterranean avenues, Parker sprang to eloquent defense of his firm's best-selling game, Monopoly (whose board squares are named after real estate in the seaside resort), and succeeded in preserving not only the town's street names but a 38-year-old American tradition as well...
...Last Resort. Simon hopes not. Under final fuel allocation regulations announced last week, he will order refineries to cut production of gasoline in order to shift more capacity to heating oil and products for industry. Still, gasoline consumption will not have to be reduced 30%, as the Administration once feared. Supplies to gas stations instead will be cut 20% below expected demand. Simon continues to predict that voluntary conservation measures will lower consumption sufficiently. In fact, though, such measures as gasless Sundays and lower speed limits so far have reduced gasoline use only 7.2%. Simon himself warns that the appearance...
...case, the Administration continues to view rationing as a last resort. Before ordering it, Simon is likely to try several other measures: perhaps gasless Saturdays, perhaps a complicated system of colored windshield stickers designed to keep every car off the road one day a week. Red, for example, might mean no driving Monday...
...cutbacks, threaten a Christmas boycott. Wherever one travels, there is a feeling of disillusion among the groups now being touched by crisis and material shortage. Bankers and finance men in Western cities ride along the raw edges of panic with their Wall Street colleagues. Many in the resort trade are petrified. The trade conventions of men in the petrochemical industry are held under a cloud of doubt. The immense plastics industry is nearing a slowdown...
...reality, the revolt was the only resort of the oppressed students of Greece, and as such was not only an expression of political maturity, but it was also the legitimate expression of popular dissatisfaction with the dictatorial regime...