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...schlag parlors of lovely Vienna, amid which the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries assembled for its quarterly meeting last week. Whatever the reason, the gathering of the 13-nation cartel that controls about two-thirds of the non-Communist world's crude oil eventually dissolved into a Mad Hatter's tea party of illogic. The sharply rising oil prices imposed by O.P.E.C. in the course of the past year have been largely responsible for spiraling international inflation. Yet delegates of the oil-producing nations, with only Saudi Arabia dissenting, voted to impose additional tax and royalty charges...
Amidst all the obsequious effusions, there was a glancing barb at the Queen's taste in hats-"For 20 years the same hat, to avoid hurting her hatter's feelings," teased one columnist...
Snow White v. the Mad Hatter...
...Spiro Agnew thinks that the Democratic Party is like "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" [Nov. 221, he ought to take a look at his party. The Republican Party consists of a Mad Hatter, Humpty Dumpties and Martha Mitchell in Lousyland. All wrapped up in that thing President Nixon calls a Republican dinner, which is actually a crazy tea party in disguise...
Between the public ploys and private power plays, the campaign at times seemed a Mad Hatter's version of due constitutional process. Seeking a closer understanding of the attitudes and intentions of the two figures most deeply involved in the race, TIME requested and was granted lengthy interviews last week with both the President and Vice President. Excerpts from their exchanges with Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart and a group of TIME reporters appear in the following stories...