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While the White House continues to urge Americans to conserve energy by driving at 55 m.p.h. and turning off the air conditioning, a severe oil glut is building west of the Rockies. At times, as many as 20 bulging tankers have been backed up in California's Long Beach harbor. Nearly half a million barrels of Alaskan crude, which oilmen had originally figured would go to the West Coast, are rerouted daily through the Panama Canal to the Gulf or East Coast ports at additional costs of more than $1 million. And although independent California oilmen are protesting...
...Changeling is not a tame play--by the end of this Jacobean tragedy, only half the cast is left, the rest done in by knife, pistol or suicide. If your taste for violence isn't jaded by the glut on TV. you may find the 17th-century's approach more tasteful. The Leverett House production is fast-moving, and the actors fill it with moments of genuine horror and occasional humor as well. The Changeling is playing at the Leverett Theater tonight, Friday and Saturday (April 27, 28, and 29) at 8 p.m., with a midnight show on the 28th...
...gray-suited audience listens to William Youngren of Boston College expound on "Dr. Johnson, Joseph Wharton and a 'Theory of Particularity.' " In another, a panel of women professors bears down on "Sexism and Racism in Shakespeare" to an overwhelmingly female audience. But concern for the tremendous Ph.D. glut has invaded even these rarefied environs. At least a dozen sessions are devoted to the problem. At one, an angry panelist accuses senior faculty of callously taking on more and more graduate students in order to free themselves from lowly teaching assignments, even though the students have no hope...
Carlos never showed, and the real specter hanging over the meeting was the growing worldwide glut of oil. During recent months the world has been awash with excess production of some 2 million bbl. per day, and Western oil stocks are currently 25% above pre-1973 embargo levels. Producers like Libya and Algeria, even while arguing for an official price hike, have been shaving their market prices by 40¢ or more per barrel...
...city's threat to rent control by conversion is seen much more as a potential than as a current phenomenon. Harlow Properties plans to convert all 500 of its housing units and has only been prevented by a marketing study that urged a delay in order to prevent a glut. Unchecked, the conversions will whittle away at the supply of available low and middle income housing. The elderly in Cambridge are especially vulnerable, as most live on fixed incomes and find it difficult to find new apartments and to move...