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Divorced. Leontyne Price, 46, the first black to sing a major role at the Metropolitan Opera; and William Warfield, 53, barrel-chested baritone of stage, screen (Show Boat) and concert hall; after 21 years of marriage, no children; in Manhattan. Price and Warfield met and married while he was starring as Porgy, she as Bess, in the '50s revival of the George Gershwin opera. The celebrated marriage later fell out of tune, and the two were legally separated...
...perforated to absorb the impact of the giant waves. This technology is so expensive that capital costs of drilling average 20 times higher than those encountered on land in the Middle East. Still, savings on transportation costs and taxes will enable oil companies to earn an estimated $1-a-barrel profit on North Sea oil, or considerably more than they get on Mideast oil delivered in Europe...
...contributions, amounting to $140,000. So popular is the scheme that liberal Democrats are reluctant to attack it. As Reagan says with a smile: "If you're for it, you've got a lot going for you. It's like shooting fish in a barrel...
...prices seem to be on the rise. In his first term Nixon gave 15 embassies to generous noncareer diplomats-more than twice as many as John F. Kennedy, and one-third more than Lyndon B. Johnson. Certainly it is high time to take the embassies out of the pork barrel...
...bitter, ten-month campaign for a better deal. Because the industrial world's appetite for fuel was and is insatiable, he was able to force the oil companies to increase Libya's oil royalties by 120% within two years-from $1.1 billion, or about $1 per barrel, in 1969 to $2.07 billion, or $2.20 per barrel, in 1971. These rates will continue rising 10% a year until 1975. In the process, Gaddafi has been amassing the largest gold and hard-currency reserves in the Arab world today ($2.9 billion). That radically altered both the life of his desert...