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...expected to raise the price of oil another $1.50 per bbl., to roughly $12. What is more, on Aug. 31 the U.S. law authorizing price controls on domestically produced oil expires; unless it is extended, the price of some 60% of oil from U.S. wells is likely to leap overnight from the present controlled...
...ASTP as an important step in perfecting techniques that will enable them to orbit space stations capable of accommodating up to 120 people for periods as long as ten years. Says Representative Don Fuqua, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications: "The Russians may try to leap ahead, embarrass us if they can, with a 'surprise' in manned space...
...analytical, scientific method to the task of comprehending language. Not quite a full-fledged mystic, Percy nevertheless doubts not only the possibility, but also the ultimate worth of understanding. On the one hand he glories in the achievement, unique to the human race, of making the associative leap from the group of sounds in balloon to the real balloon; yet at the same time he views this as a self-deception and a tragedy. After all, the word balloon is not a balloon, and our confusion of the two is the cause of what he refers to variously (these essays...
...with confidence, sometimes with Billie Jean King or Jimmy Connors. In England he lives in the affluent suburb of Virginia Water. His house is a lively jumble. The huge boots he wore as the Pinball Wizard in the movie Tommy stand near a Picasso. Two stuffed leopards are a leap away from three Rembrandt etchings. Says Elton: "All I really crave now is an original Toulouse-Lautrec or a Hieronymus Bosch...
...instance, which even now reflects galloping paper, production and labor costs, could double and possibly triple. Reason: as prices rise, some subscribers would drop off, and prices would then have to rise again to cover editorial costs and other overhead expenses. Newsweek would perhaps have to make a similar leap, as would such other weeklies as Saturday Review, The New Yorker, New York magazine and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. Even monthlies, such as Harper's and Reader's Digest, would have to hit their subscribers with drastic price increases. Religious, labor and farm publications would also be severely hurt...