Word: blaire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distinguished U.S. oil economist has challenged that assumption. In an impressively documented book titled The Control of Oil, just published by Pantheon Books, Dr. John M. Blair argues that the real culprits are the major international oil companies, known familiarly as the Seven Sisters (Exxon, Mobil, Standard Oil Co. of California, Texaco, Gulf, Royal Dutch Shell, and British Petroleum). In Blair's view, the companies actually aided and abetted the OPEC increase, while pleading helplessness to their price-gouged public. "A form of bilateral symbiotic oligopoly" is the author's complicated if caustic term to describe the relationship...
Diligent Crusader. In the 1974 Senate investigation into the causes of the oil embargo, similar charges of oil company profiteering were briefly aired and then forgotten. Blair has produced a 441-page work that is not so easily brushed aside. Until his retirement in 1970, he was one of Washington's most diligent and crusading economists. Corporate executives who were exposed to his withering questions in congressional hearings often regarded him as an anti-business radical. Actually, he was dedicated to reasserting the force of a free market, which he felt had been curtailed by the economic power...
...Michigan. At one point, surveying all that remained to be done, Betty Ford joked to an aide, "I think I'm going to have to call Mrs. Carter and say I just can't make the deadline and would she mind staying a few more days at Blair House." One evening the President searched fruitlessly through his bureau drawers for a turtleneck shirt for an informal buffet dinner. Settling for a white dress shirt and tie, Ford explained to his host, Photographer David Kennerly, "I know I was supposed to dress casually, but this is all that...
...Carter was calling all the shots himself, he was keeping Fritz Mondale and Jordan with him at the center of the selection process. The three men had started their work just before Thanksgiving, when they sat alone for three hours in one of the huge formal living rooms of Blair House. Each man ticked off names for various departments. When Jordan declared at one point that a certain businessman would make a good No. 2 man in a big department, Carter broke in: "No, let me decide that." He would obviously keep tight control...
...basic variations of Lon Chaney, including leprous or misshapen cheekbones, deformed foreheads, grotesque scars, dagger wounds, drooping, bulging eyeballs, bullet holes-plus a bottle of nontoxic gore. The kits, which sell for less than $20 each, were designed by Veteran Makeup Artist Dick Smith, who turned Linda Blair's head in The Exorcist and aged Marlon Brando in The Godfather. They come with a packet of powdered gelatin, which when melted in hot water becomes Flex Flesh and can be shaped in a variety of plastic molds. The skin-thin horror mug is kept in place with spirit...