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CONSERVATION. By cutting demand, the major consumers of oil can force the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries into production cuts that some of them, at least, will eventually find intolerable. Needing greater revenues, these oil countries would buck the cartel, increase output-and lower prices. The U.S., said Kissinger, intends to reduce oil imports from about 7 million bbl.- per day now to 6 million bbl. by the end of 1975-and to only 1 million...
...Bellamys'. Lady Marjorie is hardly dead in the Titanic disaster, and ne'er-do-well Son James is planning to marry his father's typist. Upstairs is distraught; downstairs, aghast. Pale green eyes narrowing in her pretty vixen's mask, head Houseparlormaid Rose Buck voices the general anxiety: "A stranger has been in my linen closet. I don't know if I'm still wanted here...
...buses have become sprightly delights. The bus groaning up steep Perry Highway bears the blue and white of Perry High School, and passengers rock in their seats to music provided by a cassette tape recorder. The transit authority also sells a $1 weekend pass, known as the Big Buck, that allows four people to ride wherever they like from 10 a.m. on Saturday to 4 a.m. on Monday...
With its innovations, the Pittsburgh authority reports that riders in September were up 12% over a year ago. The national average jumped 7.8%- good, but not up to the results of the system with the Wild Card and the Big Buck...
...Shortage. One reason for the J-school boom is the press's role in Watergate. Says Buck Harvey, 23, editor of the University of Texas' Daily Texan: "Journalism is one of the few professions that require integrity. The pay is small. But that doesn't bother me, because you don't have to put up a facade." Prior to the scandal, the old images of tough muckrakers and dashing foreign correspondents had faded. Now some of the glamour is back. Says Richard Petrow, dean of New York University's program: "When Robert Redford plays...