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...state attorneys general -from Massachusetts, North Carolina, Florida, New York, Connecticut and Michigan-who testified at a Senate hearing last week. The gasoline shortage, said Massachusetts Attorney General Robert Quinn, is "a means of squeezing the little guy out of the market." In some cases, asserted his Connecticut counterpart, Robert Killian, "the majors are taking over the choice locations, putting up giant 20-pump stations with 24-hr, service and are replacing the small dealers...
...much smaller Yale Co-op has recently implemented many reforms, including placing a limit on director tenure. If the Harvard Coop seriously wants to improve its responsiveness to students, it should carefully study the results of the reforms of its New Haven counterpart...
...year of appointments for Bok. Like his counterpart in Washington, he did some wholesale housecleaning, but for very different reasons. Ironically, Bok almost helped clean up Nixon's House; he was mentioned as a possible Watergate prosecutor. Eventually, the job went to trouble-shooter...
Punctilious Protocol. Rogers had an even more awkward time in Rio de Janeiro. There he waited for three days before flying to the capital of Brasilia for an official welcome. The reason: his counterpart, Foreign Minister Mário Gibson Barbosa, along with President Emílio Médici and the rest of Brazil's top officialdom, was away on a visit to Portugal. Protocol dictated that Rogers could not see anyone-or leave Rio -until Barbosa returned. He could easily have arranged either to stay at home or to fly back...
...imported a sense of vigor to most of the cast. As Jack's intended Gwendolyn, Marie Kohler is delectable in both her appearance and her acting. Kohler's lines seem to roll effortlessly off her tongue with the haughty tone in which they were written to be delivered. Her counterpart, Algernon's Cecily, with whom she shares the funniest scene in the comedy, is not as stylish; Anne Ames, in her carriage and visage, mistakes movement for animation. Stephen Zinsser and Dennis Clearly, the two lovers, are both adequate to their tasks. They are languidly effete, though Zinsser is perhaps...