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...Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Mobil Showcase Network). Even squeezed to fit the small screen, the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic entertainment still ranked as a unique theatrical treat. The nine-hour drama preserved 150 great performances in a format Dickens would have loved: the miniseries...
...alleged price rigging of Persian Gulf crude flowing into the U.S. Later the case was narrowed to the four U.S. majors who owned and operated Aramco, the Arabian American Oil Co., which pumps Saudi Arabian oil. Last week the Government dropped the case, saying that the firms, Exxon, Mobil, Texaco and Standard Oil Co. of California, no longer had a major influence on the world price of oil. Yawned an Exxon aide: "We'd almost forgotten about...
...mistrust has been heightened by several celebrated libel suits, particularly by General William Westmoreland and Los Angeles Physician Carl Galloway against CBS and by Mobil Corp. President William Tavoulareas against the Washington Post. Each raised worrisome doubts about the objectivity of prominent journalists, and called into question the techniques used to shape a story...
Tone, even more than the facts, was at issue in the suit against the Washington Post by Mobil Executive Tavoulareas. U.S. District Judge Oliver Gasch, who tried the case, ruled that Tavoulareas had not met the legal standards for proof of libel, and overturned the jury verdict. But he added, "The article falls far short of being a model of fair, unbiased journalism...
...narcotic effect. Asked to explain his formula for success, he admits that "it isn't my charisma." AT&T insiders say he hides his emotions and signals distress only by growing ominously silent. On balance, that stolid style has been an asset. Says Rawleigh Warner Jr., chairman of Mobil and an AT&T director: "He's equitable, and he doesn't lose his cool. There are no highs or lows, just steadiness." Brown, who lives in Princeton, N.J., with his second wife, Ann Lee, works off much of his tension by playing tennis and at least...