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...controlled and now sells for about $13.50 per bbl. The $5.25 ceiling on the rest of domestic oil would be continued. The President, however, would be empowered to set prices at up to $10 per bbl. for hard-to-get oil, such as the crude found north of the Arctic Circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: OPEC'S Price Doves Win a Big One | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

Just Before Nightfall is among the very best of Chabrol's movies. It is cunning and deadly, made with a measured simplicity of style which suits the ruefully ironic rigors of the theme. Attempts to delineate a sort of arctic moral climate, to deal with shallow people and the deadness of lives, frequently end up either being superficial themselves or strangling on their own rage. Chabrol's particular achievement here is his ability to keep his distance and still preserve his passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Forgiveness of Sins | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

...more than a dozen aviation companies throughout the state that specialize in flying vacationers into remote areas for canoe, kayak, raft, backpacking, hiking or sheep-hunting trips. One such expedition was arranged by an Anchorage man and three friends from the Lower 48. After being dropped north of the Arctic Circle, they drifted on rubber rafts down the Noatak River to Kotzebue Sound in two weeks. "It was the most relaxing trip I've ever made," said the organizer, Andy Williams, who claims to have read War and Peace and quit smoking en route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Adventure in Tranquil Places | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

Since 1776 the U.S. has grown from a sliver of colonies along the Atlantic coast into a colossus whose shores are also washed by the Pacific and even the Arctic oceans, from a population of 2.5 million into one nearly 90 times larger, from a simple agrarian society into the world's most technologically sophisticated civilization. How did we get from there to here? How have we changed in our 200 years? And what do these changes portend for our future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: America: Our Byproduct Nation | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

...trip abroad was only the Met's third in 91 years (the previous visits were to Paris in 1910 and 1966). From Minneapolis, where the company had concluded its spring tour the night before, two planes flew over the Arctic Circle to Tokyo. One was a cargo jet holding 48,000 Ibs. of musical instruments, wardrobe trunks, props, makeup kits, shoes, nails, hammers and extra pin wire to hold the sets together. The other was a Boeing 747 carrying soloists, choristers, dancers, musicians, technicians, managers, wives, husbands, children-and a jittery Franco Corelli, who hates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ongaku by the Met | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

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