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This year in Germany, coal will be replaced as the primary energy source for the first time-by oil. The oil boom, however, is of little benefit to German companies, because most of the petroleum is supplied and refined by international giants. These companies-Esso, Caltex, British Petroleum, Shell-have also steadily gained control of distribution in Germany until there was only one wholly German-owned company left, Deutsche Erdöl AG. Last week, despite initial objections by the Bonn government, shareholders decided overwhelmingly to sell that lone holdout for about $160 million to Texaco...
Despite Marvin's defeat, the Overseers will discuss an issue that he raised: the rule that graduates of Harvard, Radcliffe and the graduate schools have to wait five years before they can vote in the Overseers election. "Harvard would benefit from its recent graduates' immediately exercising the right and responsibility to vote," Marvin wrote to the CRIMSON last March...
...three cases, even the deeply implanted electrodes failed to show a decisive focus of abnormal activity on one side, so no surgery was attempted. Of 16 patients who had operations, ten are now free of seizures, and two have improved although they still have occasional seizures. Three got no benefit, and one died from a hemorrhage not connected with the operation...
More than 20 members of the HDC will work without salary on the summer theatre. The project will be subsidized in part by box office receipts, in part by private contributions, and in part by HDC contributions, including the receipts expected from a benefit performance at the Loeb during commencement week...
...think you see Mary Poppins descending, umbrella and valise in hand, onto Brattle Street, you're wrong. It's just a resident of 83 Brattle Street trying to get her wordly possessions out of the building without benefit of an elevator...