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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soon? No matter how the WAES experts added up the numbers, they kept coming up with a shortage. The biggest question is: How soon? The answer, the WAES group found, depends heavily on the production policies of Saudi Arabia, which has the world's largest known oil reserves. If the Saudis decide that oil in the ground is more valuable than oil sold on the market, and cap production at the present level of around 9 million bbl. per day, the shortage shows up as early as 1981. If the Saudis more than double output, to 20 million...
Lindbergh was amazed at becoming a hero. His life changed forever. After the Paris flight, people stole his laundry for souvenirs. When he wrote a check, it would be kept for his signature. Once, after a hearty lunch with some pilot friends, a group of women ran squealing to fight over the wet corncobs he had left on his plate. In 1932 came the kidnaping of the Lindberghs' child. He never forgave the mob of reporters who, he thought, had frightened the kidnaper into killing his son, or the pair of photographers who broke into the Trenton, N.J., morgue...
Aging out of those menopausal dramas, she made yet another transition, this time into horror films like Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) that kept her before the public at a time when most of her contemporaries were pretending to be happily retired. After three unsuccessful marriages to actors, she achieved happiness as the wife of Pepsi-Cola Chairman Alfred Steele and yet another career as good-will ambassador and board member of the company. Steele died in 1959, but she continued on the Pepsi board until her death...
...better. In fact, he said, it was "the greatest novel we've had in America." The critics vehemently disagreed and Jones went off to live in Paris. He and his blonde wife Gloria (once a stand-in for Marilyn Monroe) were to spend 16 years abroad. Throughout, Jones kept doggedly writing, but never again did he achieve the acclaim of Eternity...
...beningly neglected; whites overvalue minorities by seeing them as the exemplars of ethical impulses (cf. the "Birth of a Nation" fracas of a few terms ago) that white society in its relativism and decadence has lost touch with. Neglected again as Conscience that needs very often to be kept at arm's length, the minorities withdraw into themselves, resenting and exploiting this treatment...