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Toward Compromise. None of this means that the nation's long-range energy squeeze is less threatening. The U.S. is still importing more than half of its oil, and prices could rise above their already inflated levels. Reports spread last week that Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, had decided to raise its prices 5% by July 1. That would bring its quotes up to the general OPEC level and heal-or at least paper over-the bitter split that developed in the cartel last December (the eleven OPEC countries that raised prices 10% then would...
Late one Friday afternoon in November 1975, executives at the Los Angeles headquarters of Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards Inc., California's largest brokerage firm, got a series of disturbing phone calls. All 25 employees in the firm's Fresno office-17 account representatives, two trainees, six back-office assistants-announced that they were quitting, with no advance warning. Most distressing to Bateman Eichler was the employees' destination. They moved en masse across Shaw Avenue to open, on Monday morning, the brand-new Fresno office of Bateman Eichler's competitor, Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis...
...entering class this fall in the Public Policy program of the Kennedy School of Government will be the largest and most talented class admitted in the history of the program, with women and minority students making up half the class, Graham T. Allison '62, dean-designate of the Kennedy School, said yesterday...
...mood on campus and all that, but Henry A. Kissinger '50, former Harvard professor of Government, can still bring out the protesters. His October appearance on campus during his final days as Secretary of State prompted a 500-person demonstration, one of the largest on campus in recent years...
...prices. Government sources told TIME that one executive of a U.S. importing company has admitted that his firm has received millions of dollars in such kickbacks. John Nevin, chairman of Zenith, the U.S. company whose complaint touched off the investigation about a year ago, calls the kickback probe "the largest customs fraud investigation I know...