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...earnings with the host country on a 25-75 basis, as most major international oil companies do, France will turn over half the oil reserves it finds to Iran, in return for rights to pump out as much as 45% of the rest at well under the going world crude oil prices...
...Festival also screened a Russian film, "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors," which had taken the honors at the San Francisco Film Festival, arriving in New York with a hearty endorsement from Kenneth Anger, director of "Scorpio Rising." Like most Russian films, it was crude, old-fashioned, sentimental, and arty. But taking all that into account, it was really interesting, with good color, some nice free-form camerawork, and a lot of costumes and noisy Russian folk-music...
These figurse are very crude, of course. The categories are extremely broad. Within each category, Negroes, on the average, have worse jobs at lower rates of pay. But even at this very gross level, many of the essential problems emerge clearly...
...room without proper aseptic precautions. Two "quite serious" cancer operations were under way, and Hall counted 43 persons clustered around. Some were perched on stepladders, others moved from one operation to the other, "stirring up dust and substantially increasing the dangers of infection." In a delicate nose restoration, a crude, oversized needle "fit only for abdominal surgery" was used. An effort to rebuild a face involved an old-fashioned technique that required transplanting flesh tunneled from the patient's arm. "In the U.S.," said Dr. Hall, "the surgeon would have used free grafts and implant materials...
...prescribed for the 1960s, Lekachman does not echo the fierce individualist from Cambridge, England, but the contemporary critic from Cambridge, Mass.-John Kenneth Galbraith. Faulting everything from "the looming menace of automation" to "the dubious or negative social value of advertising," Lekachman is angry with America's "frequently crude and crass material culture" and somehow concludes that the Great Society programs have "powerful tendencies to favor the prosperous...