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That simple pronouncement could hardly have been loaded with more significance. The mighty organization that once seemed able to bend the world to its will was sinking deeper into its worst crisis. OPEC was badly split, if not permanently shattered. Concluded Harvard Economics Professor Otto Eckstein: "The cartel is on the verge of falling apart. If Saudi Arabia cannot impose some production and price discipline on the other members, then OPEC is finished...
...auto fleet are older ones (average age: seven years) and will need to be replaced sooner or later. This year will not be a great one for Detroit. But at last there seems to be cause for believing that good times, if not around the next bend, could be around the one after that. - By John S. DeMott. Reported by Bruce van Voorst/New York and Paul A. Witteman/ Detroit
...established his witness's competence by picking up a pen and asking the victim, Timmy White, then six, "Timmy, if I told you this thing in my hand is an ice cream cone, would it be the truth or a lie?" To put children at ease, some judges bend courtroom rules a bit. In one Seattle trial, a 5½-year-old witness was allowed to sit on her mother...
...Harvard men's and women's fencing teams both battled highly-touted Notre Dame last night and found the Fighting Irish's ratings weren't inflated, as the swordsmen from South Bend downed both squads convincingly last night...
...just when the crowd was beginning to give up on Schuler, the Crimson distance specialist began his kick and moved into second coming around the last bend. He caught Harrison down the stretch and finally passed him with less than 10 yards to go, winning the race by three tenths of a second...