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...union is also urging people to boycott the Gulf Oil Company, from which Shell buys most of its crude...
EVEN LESS PREDICTABLE are the implications of suspended animation. Although the art of cryogenic freezing is still crude, there are some reports of whole human bodies being preserved in the hopes of revival when a cure is found for a currently fatal disease. But current laws demand that the preserved patient be thoroughly dead before preservation and current methods of freezing cause so much cell damage that the process along is probably fatal...
...fact and to his own fiction. The war could be any war. A vehicle for top-heavy symbolism, it serves the purpose of contrasting Francis's world-weary pacifism with his merchant father's greedy support of warfare. Zeffirelli uses the presence of militarism in the abstract to furnish crude social commentary as a companion-piece to the attention he lavishes on the generation gap, or on the contrast between organized religion and Christianity experienced according to the Gospels...
Spokesmen for the major oil companies claim that refinery runs are down because their stocks of unrefined crude oil are dwindling in the face of a worldwide tightness of supply. Lowered gasoline output also reflects the fact that last winter oil companies shifted much refinery capacity to production of home-heating oil; they are just beginning to switch back. In addition, the Cost of Living Council last month reimposed mandatory price controls and profit-margin limits on the petroleum industry; one effect is to discourage many refiners from importing expensive foreign crude to augment their supplies. Further exacerbating the problem...
Many independent marketers favor removing all restrictions on imports of foreign oil. President Nixon is unlikely to go that far, but he is expected shortly to replace quotas, at least temporarily, with a tariff system that would permit much more crude oil to be imported at higher prices. If that step is taken, Administration officials are convinced that the nation can get through the summer suffering nothing worse than localized gasoline shortages and some rise in prices. There is one major hitch: if refineries produce enough gasoline to meet peak demand this summer, they may have to curtail heating...