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...head and declares sadly: "You stop trying to get ahead because you just don't know what is going to happen next." Twenty miles away in the tiny village of Las Vertientes, a local handyman has quit working and spends most days sitting idly in front of his crude shack. "El compaňero presidente," he says, "will give us everything we need...
...work, I assume that Clavell would think even the serious theories to be so much drivel. I don't know if I'd call him a "good storyteller" as Pauline Kael did, but that is precisely what he intends to be, and at times he is successful. He is crude in the sense that a Michael Curtiz or Roaul Walsh was crude, aiming for direct actions which are emotionally arousing but possess a sort of integrity: they don't score moral points. At one moment, a Teutonic Savanarola is thrown onto a witch's pyre of his own fashion...
...settle some old scores. They argue that posted prices-the generally static figures on which their share is based -were imposed on them by the West decades ago, when oil was not as much in demand as it is today. They note with irritation that, while a barrel of crude in Western Europe yields an average of $8 in the marketplace, they get only about $1 out of it. The rest goes into production, transport, refining and marketing costs ($3), oil-company profits (50?) and taxes collected by the consuming countries ($3.50). Even more infuriating to the predominantly Arab group...
...issue of Jewish students' admissions in a manner that will help elevate ethnicity as such to a principle of admissions to Harvard College. The reported "investigation" of admissions status of Jews by Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold of the University Ministry will surely do this. It smacks of a crude and uncritical application to a university of methods of handling ethnicity that evolved in city machine politics...
Still upset by the 1969 Santa Barbara Channel blowout, which discharged 336,000 gallons of crude oil, Californians faced an even worse spill last week. This time two Standard Oil of California tankers collided in dense fog under Golden Gate Bridge and drifted helplessly into San Francisco Bay. With a 40-ft. gash in her hull, the Oregon Standard gushed 1,000,000 gallons of bunker fuel oil that soon coated beaches and wildlife sanctuaries for 50 miles of the coast. Some people were so incensed at Standard Oil that they hurled plastic bags full of oil at the company...