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...controls is held to an average of $4 per bbl. But "new" oil-all production of a well above last year's total-is exempt from controls, and it is now selling for $5.60 or more per bbl. By next year it is expected by independent producers to leap as high as $8. Indeed, Texas oilmen say that they have Government assurances that price regulations on all petroleum products will soon be loosened to give oil companies greater incentive to produce...
...announce his choice for Vice President to replace Spiro Agnew and, artfully building the suspense, had let it be known that 1) he was not going to notify his man until shortly before TV time and 2) the selection "might be a name that does not leap readily to mind." That meant that almost any Republican leader worth his ambition could be struck by the lightning; it was, all things considered, not a bad night to be at home...
...Beginning. Nixon's choice was safe and unimaginative, if not quite justifying the rhetoric of a "new beginning" for the nation he called for in announcing it. Ford would not readily leap to mind as the Republican most capable of leading the nation were Nixon not to finish his term, but he admirably meets Nixon's second and third tests of fidelity of views and acceptability by Congress. In his own straitened circumstances, Nixon doubtless felt that Ford was all he could afford...
...there's another, healthier angle on Merle Haggard, one that places him in the populist tradition of American folk music. A phenomenon like this needs years to take shape, and those two songs aren't much for posterity to leap on. But when one looks at Haggard's life, and some music more representative of him than "Okie" and company, one sees the seeds of a raw, anachronistic ethos, the kind of stuff that twenty years can turn into a romantic mythology...
Bobby is also threatening to make partly good his promise to jump from the Pasadena Bridge if he lost (he has substituted the London Bridge, now situated in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., a leap that would presumably cause him no injury). But where would the spotlights...