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That old joke about the man who liked pancakes so much he collected trunkfuls of them wouldn't coax a chuckle from Cecil Heidelberger. For years, neighbors of the chubby junk dealer in rural Andover, Minn., were I amazed, amused or outraged by his g particular passion: worn-out auto tires...
...there, however, it is by no means certain that the U.S. can get it out at an acceptable cost-economic or environmental. A court injunction has restrained federal leasing of drilling sites in the Baltimore Canyon until a fuller ecological study is completed, and Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus is holding off on other leases. Meanwhile, the blowout on the Phillips Petroleum rig in Norway's Ekofisk field in the North Sea (see ENVIRONMENT) is certain to buttress environmentalists' arguments about the dangers of offshore drilling...
...Jordan warns Carter, "maybe a couple of hours." In fact, it lasts nearly five hours, with the President sitting in and taking an active part for 31/2 hours. Among those attending is a Who's Who of the Administration: Schlesinger, Schultze, Blumenthal, Jordan, Powell, Moore, Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus, Bert Lance of OMB, Jack Watson of the President's staff...
Last year's start resembled a Cecil...
...When Cecil B. DeMille undertook to portray Jesus in his 1927 film King of Kings, he established a style of reverential spectacle that endured for decades in such religious pageants as Ben-Hur, The Robe, the remake of King of Kings, and The Greatest Story Ever Told. In recent years the interpretations have become broader. Jesus was a fierce champion of the oppressed in The Gospel According to St. Matthew, a crucified clown in Godspell, a befuddled mystic in Jesus Christ Superstar, a well-intentioned charlatan in The Passover Plot. A Danish producer is even trying to turn...