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...scheduled tours a day, come gale, fog or high water, tickets for weekends and holidays are sold out a month in advance. Tourists include some of the Indians who occupied Alcatraz in 1970, penologists, historians, police officers, prison wardens, troops of schoolchildren and an occasional former inmate (one ex-con insisted on getting married there, so that his wife would understand what he had been through...
Maybe, with so much talk about so little movie--further perpetuated here--and with the commercial forms (if not the actual money) so blatant, the implication is that W. Donald Brown's Counterpoint is a con movie, that he's ripping somebody off. Maybe so. But in career games like filmmaking, it's seldom talent that pulls a first-time artist out of the hat and into the public view. Usually you need to do it with mirrors...
...fact, invoking the fairness doctrine is rarely simple. The NBC documentary certainly was not "balanced," but should it have been? It dramatically showed that, for a significant number of Americans, pensions do not deliver the incomes that were promised. This undisputed fact hardly seems to require the pro-and-con treatment that networks must legally give such clearly controversial subjects as abortion, legalized gambling or school busing...
...real and acute. Officials of Consolidated Edison put the New York City area on a round-the-clock 5% voltage cutback because the company had only a 9½-day stock of fuel left; that supply was dwindling steadily, and late last week FEO officials agreed to help Con Ed increase its reserves to a twelve-day supply. Airlines were also running short of fuel. Figuring that conventional sources of energy will remain scarce and costly, executives of RCA announced in Manhattan a major investment in solar energy. Next year the company will build a $6 million con-ference...
...power plants, factories and ships. The little-known New England Petroleum Corp. (Nepco), which owns 65% of Borco (Standard Oil Co. of California owns the rest), is a leading supplier of residual oil and other petroleum products to electric utilities in the Northeast, including New York City's Con Edison. The company also owns a string of 250 gas stations in Eastern Canada, operates wells in Abu Dhabi and Texas, and claims to have posted 1972 sales of $1 billion. Nepco President Edward M. Carey founded the company 38 years ago and remains sole owner...