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...Exxon Vice President Roy Baze was publicly humiliated by Democratic Senator Henry Jackson of Washington. Baze, an expert on moving and storing oil, expected to be questioned about supplies, but Jackson asked him instead what Exxon's per-share dividends were. Baze did not know, and Jackson made a grandstand show of phoning a Washington stockbroker for the information. Last week an overwrought writer of a letter to the New York Times accused Exxon of "treason" for not supplying the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean during the Middle East
...presidential nomination, took advantage of the inept performance of Exxon Vice President Roy A. Baze. When Baze could not recall the size of Exxon's 1972 dividends, Jackson snapped: "I guess we're going to have to start slapping subpoenas on some of you." Then, in a grandstand play, Jackson phoned a stockbroker and announced that the dividend was $3.80 a share...
...delegates, many of them obviously uncomfortable in the ill-fitting Western suits that they rented for the occasion, met in the grandstand of the Royal Turf Club. They elected 299 of their number to form a new National Assembly, which will approve a new constitution and oversee new national elections. The Assembly's members represent the most democratic political cross section in the country's history. Military and police officers have only about one-tenth of the seats, compared with two-thirds in the old Assembly. Now civil servants, academics, journalists and farmers sit side by side...
Like a Las Vegas casino, West Flagler keeps the price of admission minimal. The best grandstand seats cost 750 or 500, and one section is free. But in an "evening of fun," the average fan bets $72. Some of the more affluent, like Businessman José Martinez, can afford to lose repeatedly when they "wheel a Quiniela" for $6-track talk for placing a bet on three combinations of three competitors picked to win, place and show. "You never know," says Martinez. "You can have the best dog in the race and sometimes...
...readjust the emphasis. Hickey does not stand apart, he becomes just another victim. The weight of the play falls on Robert Ryan, whose portrayal of Larry Slade is magnificent. Slade, the rummy poet anarchist, the man who likes to pretend he watches life with cynical dispassion from the grandstand, who claims to invite and welcome death, is a role full of traps. It is hard to separate Slade's sodden grandiloquence ("Go, for the love of Christ, you mad tortured bastard, for your own sake!") from Eugene O'Neill's own penchant for overstuffing his dialogue. Ryan...