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...Changes. Ford has another strategy: to decontrol gradually the price of U.S.-produced oil and gas, letting them rise as a means of forcing conservation and encouraging new development. But even that came a cropper last week. A House Commerce subcommittee heard staff members of the Federal Trade Commission charge that the gas industry deliberately understated reserves in order to win high prices. For example, the FTC officials contended, in 1971 and 1972 Union Oil for internal purposes assessed gas reserves in an area off the Louisiana shore at 7.2 trillion cu. ft.; at the same time, the American...
...last of the great British cartoonists. But even at his apogee he seldom surpassed the best of his American colleagues. A Cartoon History offers compelling work of artists representing the whole ideological spectrum. On the political left are some superlative efforts from the World War II years: William Cropper's fascists, consuming the globe for dinner, and Saul Steinberg's Hitler, portrayed as a constipated hen. The progressives are matched in temper and tone by conservatives of the '50s: Joseph Parrish's conception of the U.N. as a Trojan horse, brimming with "alien spies"; Reg Manning...
...squad of Ken Dryden, Brian Cropper or Dave Elenbaas. There are no goalies minding the Cornell nets with averages under 3.00. There is no undefeated record...
When a mature dramatist of international distinction writes a feeble, pointless play, a feeling of sadness and embarrassment clings to the event. Is it, one asks, a temporary lapse, or is it evidence of declining powers? Whichever it is, Arthur Miller has come a cropper in The Creation of the World and Other Business...
Although Cornell, under sophomore coach Dick Bertrand, lost three stars from its 1970-71 team--All-American wing Kevin Pettit. All-Ivy forward Brian McCutcheon and All-Ivy goalie Brian Cropper--the Big Red is still loaded with its usual stock of Canadian talent...