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...Free World demand [for oil] is expected to increase by some 25 billion barrels per day. That means the industry will have to discover about 40 billion barrels of new oil reserves each year.... Since it is estimated that exploration in the U. S. will provide only a small fraction of these requirements, the majority of these oil reserves must be found elsewhere...
...crop in any one year. However, anti-crop spraying has been largely confined to the food-scarce Central Highlands, the entire population of which is only about one million. Most of these are Montagnards. . . . We believe the anti-crop program may have had a profound impact on a large fraction of the total Montagnard population of South Vietnam and we believe this to be a point for urgent consideration...
...Episcopal Church owns 12,574 shares of GM stock, only a tiny fraction of the 285,500,000 shares outstanding. But the uphill fight is meant to be dramatic. It is one of two initial campaigns of the church's new Committee on Social Criteria for Investments, headed by Wall Street Lawyer Robert S. Potter. Another possible action, on which a report is due this week, is opposition to new open-pit mining operations in Puerto Rico by American Metal Climax and Kennecott, in which the national Episcopal Church office and local churches hold a combined $10 million...
...Equalizers and Exterminators, the Marauders and Mongols, the Raiders, and Road Vultures, to the Warlocks and Wheels of Soul. The unsavory names with which these gangs have christened themselves are apt to make the public forget that their collective membership is probably no more than 3,000, the merest fraction of the 3,000,000 people who regularly ride bikes in the U.S. In fact, these "outlaws" on the road are infinitely less of a threat than the driver of a station wagon with two martinis under his seat belt...
...months ago. Public concern has shifted from space to more pressing earthly problems. In addition, the Russians have dramatically demonstrated that unattended robots like Lunokhod 1 -still alive and moving after eight weeks on the moon-may eventually achieve some of the goals of manned flight at a fraction of the cost and with none of the risks to life. Thus, as it prepares to launch Apollo 14 and Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stu Roosa and Edgar Mitchell on man's fourth mission to the moon, NASA is keenly aware that the future of the manned space program may well...