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...EAST. Carter leads in Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island and Washington, D.C. Two of the three largest electoral states in the East-New Jersey and Pennsylvania-still tilt toward Carter. President Ford still leads in New Hampshire and Vermont. Maine, where Independent Governor James Longley last week endorsed Ford, now leans to the President. The races in Connecticut and Delaware are tossups...
Reasons for Optimism. Despite all the doomsday talk, there were some compelling reasons for optimism. British Petroleum, the oil giant that is 48% government-owned, announced that unexpectedly good geological conditions in the North Sea's largest field have enabled the company to increase its production schedule by 25%. At the same time, a survey released by DeGolyer & MacNaughton, an oil consulting firm, forecast a 12% increase in yield from another large North Sea field that is being developed by Occidental Petroleum...
Last year, Harvard traveled to Providence and before the largest crowd in Bruin history, as well as a regional television audience, embarassed the home folks...
When Mr. Kotchian arrived in Japan on that August day in 1972, his mission was nothing less than to save the Lockheed Corporation from impending bankruptcy. The company was then, and is now, the largest defense contractor in the United States. (Corporate sales in 1975 amounted to an estimated $3.5 billion.) But in the late 1960's, Lockheed's management had made a major decision to diversify its business and compete with Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas in the manufacture and sale of commercial airliners. Lockheed had thus developed the L-1011 Tristan wide-bodied jumbo jet, but the program...
Traditional diffidence where private business is concerned may account for the tardy recognition by our diplomats of this new reality in international politics. If they persist in viewing the commercial solicitations of our largest corporations as irrelevant to their work, they will discover too late that important decisions involving our national interests have effectively been taken from their hands...