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...then call me husband." Eventually Helena turns up in Italy, where she bribes a widow's daughter, Diana, with whom Bertram has a midnight assignation, to yield her place in bed. Helena thus secures his ring and is impregnated by him. After further complications. Bertram finally says-in a crude Hollywoodesque wrap-up-that he is willing to love...
...bulldozer. By denying entry to repair crews, the revolutionary Syrian government gains status among Arab extremists, while conservative Saudi Arabia, where the line originates, loses up to $500,000 a day. The line's owner, Arabian-American Oil Co. (Aramco), is seeking to charter tankers to move the crude...
...another, the U.S. stands to win fairly broad quotas. But the Japanese public is up in arms over what many consider to be a crude and arrogant American stand. Japanese businessmen will be watching to see if their textile industry was right in warning that it was only the first to come under U.S. pressure for import quotas. They may not have to wait long. Next week top executives of the U.S. steel industry plan a one-day blitz of Congress to plead their case for more restrictions on imports of steel products...
Last week President Nixon heeded the message. The President asked Congress to cancel 20 federal leases on 198,200 acres and establish a marine sanctuary in the Santa Barbara Channel. If Congress approves, the Government will compensate the oil companies for the 20 leases by selling crude oil from its federal reserve near Bakersfield, Calif. Courts will determine just how much the Government will pay. Since the area has not been fully explored, the oilmen may receive more than the $178 million they put out for the leases...
...leases in the North Sea, found the estimate a "complete exaggeration." British Petroleum was "slightly surprised" by the find, but an official admitted it was unlikely that Phillips would exaggerate or overestimate. Neither Shell nor B.P. sees North Sea production seriously competing with cheaply transported Middle Eastern crude soon...