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...thing a layman may be surprised to learn from The Prize, a new PBS series about the history of oil, is that the stuff wasn't always around. "Rock oil" was known in the early 19th century only as a medicine. It wasn't until 1859 that some Pennsylvania businessmen first extracted it from the ground and refined it into kerosene. For years, the substance was used mainly to light lamps. Only with the coming of the automobile did oil become the most sought-after fuel in the world. Since then it has been the impetus for great capitalist enterprises...
...intuitive feel for America's changing patterns. He is comfortable with women as equal partners in the workplace, in government and in marriages like his own. As an exemplar of the new South, he has dealt with blacks and gays, as well as good ole boys and businessmen, on a daily basis with mutual respect. And unlike any other prominent Democrat since Jimmy Carter, he is not tone deaf to the religious chords that can help bind American society. Not only does he know how to clap on the back-beat of gospel hymns, he also draws unabashed strength from...
...family-values emphasis at the Republican Convention was not an accidental intrusion (no matter how ineptly handled). Conservatives are no longer content to run a businessmen's Administration like that of Coolidge or Hoover, letting other matters be debated by the pointy heads. Today, after all, the basic values of society are changing or being debated -- attitudes toward monogamy, women's roles, abortion, gay rights, censorship. These topics are bound to be tested largely in the freewheeling atmosphere of the academy and the arts, and changes there are bound to disturb traditionalists. But when traditionalists respond as they have...
From an office in a Miami industrial park, Mas plots his return with an army of economists, lawyers and corporate executives. A committee of businessmen has drawn up a $15 billion blueprint for economic reconstruction, complete with an inventory of government property to be privatized after Castro's fall. An economic peace corps of 10,000 Cuban-American professionals will be trained to fan out across the island and teach free-market methods to their bewildered communist comrades. Lawyers have drafted principles for a new constitution. Videotapes smuggled into Cuba reassure islanders about the exiles' plans, and the foundation...
...power base at the foundation continues to grow. Formed in 1981 by 14 Miami businessmen, it lists 254,000 families as members and is opening new chapters in 10 cities across the U.S. as well as in Mexico City, Madrid and Moscow. Chairman Mas travels the world to urge governments to isolate Castro; at Mas' behest two years ago, the Czechs stopped representing Cuba in Washington. To encourage Moscow to cut its remaining trade ties with the island, he even offered the foundation's help in subsidizing Russia's sugar purchases elsewhere...