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...material supply appendage" for the West, are extremely sensitive about such proposals. They are far more receptive to plans that allow the Soviets to pay for the U.S. technology they want with the very goods that will be produced by using that technology. Occidental Petroleum Chairman Armand Hammer put together just such a pay-for-itself scheme, and last week Occidental and Kremlin trade officials reached general agreement on the largest U.S.-Soviet trade deal ever contemplated−a multi-billion-dollar barter arrangement involving chemicals and fertilizer...
With his customary elan, the Russian-speaking Hammer celebrated the deal at a signing ceremony attended by two Soviet industrial ministers and then flew out of Moscow in his private jet without telling even his top aides many of the details. Among them: just how much the agreement is worth (estimates range from $4 billion to $8 billion) and how Occidental's investment will be financed. One guess: bank loans guaranteed by the U.S. Government. Said a businessman familiar with Occidental: "Where the money comes from is still the big question...
...field events, Princeton looks stronger at the hammer, shot discus and broad jump...
UNFORTUNATELY, I cannot give the same praise to either Repeat Performance or The Prophets, the other two plays in the collection. They both hammer in their central points much too strongly, lacking the humorous touch of Striptease. Ironically, this humor is what enables us to take Striptease seriously; we identify with Mr. I and Mr. II partly because they are funny. In the two longer plays, Mrozek becomes ponderously moralistic, and as a result we distance ourselves from his rigidly tragic characters...
Harvard faired poorly in the field events, not placing among the top five in either the pole vault, the high jump or the hammer. Jay Hughes, the Crimson shot putter, took fourth in that event. Vaulter Jim Kleiger and high jumper Mel Embree had disappointing afternoons...