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When producers do get around to turning out something like Throat, they promise to add Gallic subtlety to what they think is crude American formula. The radicals used to complain that French life was a dull blend of "Métro, Boulot and Dodo"-subway, work and sleep. Now, says the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchalne, the slogan is "Métro, Boulot, Dodo et Porno...
There is currently some noise around to the effect that Cooley High-about growing up black in Chicago in 1964-is a separate but equal American Graffiti. Such impressions should be corrected immediately. It requires a certain defensiveness, or an anxious if inadvertent condescension, to maintain that Cooley High, crude of mind and clumsy of execution, can even compete with the smart high spirits of American Graffiti...
...cushion the economic impact" of sudden decontrol, Ford announced he will remove a $2-per-bbl. tariff on imported crude and a 60?-per-bbl. fee on foreign refined products. That will cut the selling price of foreign oil to American consumers from its present $14.50 per bbl. and in effect lower the market ceiling toward which domestic oil prices could rise. If Congress overrides his veto of the controls extension, Ford has threatened to reinstate the tariff...
...soften the blow of decontrol, the Administration last week announced it will propose a "windfall profits tax" on oil companies. Details were not spelled out, but they are likely to follow a plan approved last month by the Senate Finance Committee. That plan, which involves an excise tax on crude oil, would take away as much as 90% of the money that oil companies will get from increases in the price of decontrolled crude and return much of the cash to adult citizens through income tax credits or refunds between $24 and $85 a person each year until...
...decontrol the price of gasoline will rise only 3? a gallon, and the nation's total oil bill will go up only $5.3 billion over the next twelve months. Main reason for their optimism: a belief that stiff competition among oil companies resulting from a world glut of crude will keep the price increases moderate...