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S.E.C. coaches admit that their athletic scholarship policies are the most liberal in the country. "A good football player," says Vanderbilt Coach Jack Green, "is a precious commodity-and we know it." Not that S.E.C. schools pay more; they offer the usual free ride: room, board, tuition and textbooks, plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Football: Way up South | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

Truce in the Wars. Stock prices are strong because profits are surging. Standard of New Jersey, the world's largest oil company, last week reported record profits of $272 million for the third quarter, up 3% from the same period last year. Mobil, Cities Service and Standard of Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil: Gushing Profits | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

As a contractor, France will not have to ante up the huge cash bonuses with which the majors traditionally lubricate their concession agreements. In return, France agreed to bankroll the whole project, which may cost $50 million; the Iranians need repay the loan only if and when oil is found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Sweetening the Oil | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

For their part, the majors (the biggest, led by Standard Oil of New Jersey and Royal Dutch/Shell, are nicknamed "the Seven Sisters") fear that, waving the juicy E.R.A.P. deal as precedent, every sheik in the Middle East will be howling for similar agreements. Actually, France may well decide that it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Sweetening the Oil | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

Opening credits label the enterprise "after" Shakespeare. It is possible that Boris Pasternak's translation aims at rough dramatic paraphrase of the sort Robert Lowell calls "imitation." In any case, it undoubtedly stands on its own merits, none of which, unfortunately, will be intelligible to any but Slavic majors.

Author: By Jeremy W. Heist, | Title: Hamlet | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

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