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Since there has not been an example of the English realistic cinema in some time, Bronco Bullfrog comes to the U.S. as something of a novelty, and rather a welcome one. Crude and defiant, the film is full of such angry energy that its shortcomings can be, if not dismissed, at least indulged...
...does Joy, the ex-wife of a famous actor, have an affair with a crude young waiter named Vincent? And why does Vincent keep beating...
...face of legal threats from one of the world's most powerful consortiums, IPC, which is owned by Standard Oil (New Jersey), Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, British Petroleum, Compagnie Franchise des Petroles and minority investors. The four senior partners are influential enough to block sales of Iraqi crude to other major oil companies. IPC also stands ready to act under international law to sequester cargoes of "stolen" Iraqi oil. British Petroleum has already seized tankers carrying oil from its wells in Libya, which were nationalized earlier this year...
...Harvard. As for white students, the insistence that Harvard end its involvement with Gulf in Angola--as opposed to all the other oppressive activities of American capitalism its $18.5 million would be hard put to avoid being implicated in--seems arbitrary at best and, given Vietnam, stupid and crude at worst. One wonders how many of them will continue this specific concern for Angola, or could even point it out on a map. As for divestiture as a demand, whatever publicity value a Harvard sell-out might have in placing the University's prestige behind the struggle of the Angolese...
...crew are all too real. In an age when man can rendezvous and dock spacecraft high above the earth, travel to the moon with pinpoint accuracy and send payloads to much more distant targets in the solar system, the control of air traffic closer to home is still crude and imprecise in comparison. As a result, runways are overcrowded on the ground, air lanes are jammed aloft. Particularly near airports, spacing between aircraft is often so hard to control that near-misses are dangerously familiar. Is there any solution in sight for the growing air-traffic snarl...