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Acutely aware of their vulnerability, Japanese companies are sending teams of geologists and businessmen all over the world to scout for new sources and bid aggressively for existing supplies. The first of two new high-level missions, headed by Wataru Tajitsu, chairman of The Mitsubishi Bank, Ltd., will leave Japan this month to search out new oil sources in Australia, Papua and New Guinea. Japanese crews are exploring for oil-or preparing to do so -from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Siam, in Alaska, Colombia...
...Year's Eve, Nixon invited newsmen into his office for a taste of his "secret" martini formula. It was not long before the press corps discovered that Manolo knew the vaunted recipe. But there were no high-level disclosures: "I give you my secret formula for daiquiris," he offered. "How about that?" He dispenses footnote facts-Nixon has orange juice, cold cereal and grapefruit for breakfast-but Manolo husbands in true Nixon fashion what he considers to be more controversial information, such as which newspapers the President reads during breakfast: "Oh, one or two. I really cannot...
...America's ambassadors and high-level bureaucrats deserve better than that, and they get it, as the French did before them. Native servants, limousines, Swiss boarding schools for their children to compensate for the cultural deprivation of growing up amidst "backwardness, ignorance, and filth." Too bad that Laos-once calculated to be one of the world's two least developed countries-is a pretty poor heap...
...know whether to stand by the government in hope or turn against it," Qabus told TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott. "If we had let things go as they were, they could have taken a disastrous turn." With the obvious connivance of the British, who have provided Oman with high-level advisers since 1898, the young prince plotted his father's overthrow. The coup was quick and occurred completely within the palace: a brief gun battle, a chase through the corridors and Said, 60, was off to exile in London...
...more than high-level academic gossip," said one Harvard administrative source. "For people involved in higher education these things are already known but they are quite impressive to the legislative committees with which many hard-pressed state schools must contend...