Word: gusher
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...lifting of price controls on new oil has changed the equation. Now it seems that anywhere there is a chance of bringing in a gusher, new wells are being planned or sunk...
Youth is not making the scene the way it used to. The gusher of books and articles glorifying the young has largely dried up, and younger people are writing more sympathetically about their elders. David Kaufelt's first novel is appropriately titled Six Months with an Older Woman-and they are comically instructive months. One of the best of the recent books on older people, Nobody Ever Died of Old Age, was written by 34-year-old Sharon Curtin, a '60s radical...
...Persian Gulf. He had two private sessions totaling three hours in the President's Oval Office. Then the Shah, 53, and his stunning third wife, Empress Farah, 34, were feted by the President at a state dinner in the White House (the 115 guests included a gusher of U.S. oil executives), and the Nixons attended a reciprocal dinner at the Iranian embassy. Perhaps most satisfying, though, was the morning the Shah was given with officials of the Defense Department. For more than anything else, he was in Washington to shop for weapons...
Many Jesuits, including Superior General Pedro Arrupe, would like to see the general congregation put some kind of cap on the Jesuit gusher, pushing the very visible turmoil back underground for a while. It may be a vain hope. The Jesuits are certainly settling back a bit these days, resting from the traumatic departures and heady changes...
...Beirut of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which ended last week, the largest consortium of oil companies, the Arabian American Oil Co., bowed to the inevitable and agreed in principle to sell 20% of its ownership to Saudi Arabia. Aramco's decision will doubtless cause a gusher of further participation concessions, which will increase the economic and political power of the producing nations, most of them in the Middle East...