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...critic. There are prizes for the best novels about soccer, vacations, volcanoes and happy old age. The Grand Prix Litteraire des Vins du Périgord de la Région de Bergerac goes to the best literary celebration of the glories of Perigord wine. First prize: half a barrel of Périgord wine. The Prix Mystère et Cognac, which was unfortunately abolished this year, traditionally went to the best detective novel whose hero drank cognac. There are even awards for losers. The coveted Prix Cazes goes to a writer who has never won any other prize...
...profit that Aramco companies now collect on Arabian light crude. Exxon, one of Aramco's owners, estimates its own profit at 34? per bbl. But if Aramco has to pay 94.8% of the posted price as well as the higher taxes and royalties, its costs per barrel could jump as high as 55?, to about $10.35. At a meeting of security analysts in Manhattan last week, Exxon Chairman J. Kenneth Jamieson said he was "somewhat mystified" by the impact of the Abu Dhabi decision. But he estimated that the rise in royalties and taxes alone would...
...windswept cornfield near the aptly named Minnesota farming community of Pillager last week, a farmer placed the barrel of a 22-cal. pistol against the head of a three-month-old calf and pulled the trigger, felling the animal instantly. Another farmer then slit the calf's jugular vein. Its carcass was dragged to a freshly dug trench and kicked in. Another calf was shot and disposed of in the same manner, then another and another, until by midafternoon almost 300 head had been destroyed and piled in the pit. The day's last kill was a sackful...
...Wichitans finally have an alternative, and one that arrived in unusual circumstances. First, the Sun is a weekly attempting to compensate with depth and flair for what it lacks in immediacy. Second, it is and will continue to be distributed free, an arrangement that normally signals bottom-of-the-barrel journalism. Most curious of all, the Sun was launched last month by KAKE-TV & Radio, Inc., Wichita's prosperous ABC affiliate. That was a reversal of tradition; in the past, newspapers have organized or acquired broadcast properties...
...lightweights will race four crews in the eights competition: one composed of the remnants of last year's varsity, while another is last year's first freshman boat. As for the others, Higginson says, "They come from the sludge of our lightweight barrel. Of course, the barrel is all sludge in the fall...