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Ever since U.S. doctors returned from mainland China with favorable reports about the effectiveness of acupuncture as a treatment and anesthetic, occidental interest in the ancient oriental art has ballooned. So has the demand for high-quality acupuncture needles. Last week, however, the Food and Drug Administration temporarily deflated matters...
>Exploitation of Siberian natural-gas reserves. Two projects are being explored, one involving on the U.S. side a consortium of Tenneco, Texan Eastern Transmission and Brown & Root, the other El Paso Natural Gas and possibly Occidental Petroleum. The two together could require as much as $10 billion to $14 billion...
U.S. investors must have thought that the figure came from Brezhnev himself. In three days of frenzied trading, Occidental's stock shot up from 11⅞ to 18¼. Then the puff turned into poof. Arriving in Moscow for major trade talks, Commerce Secretary Peter G. Peterson said of...
"IT'S LIKE A DREAM to be in Tokyo," the grandmother remarks upon arrival. "I never realized it was so close." These words imply how Ozu illustrates that "the Japanese family system has began to come apart." Tempo, life-style, mood and environment are so different in Tokyo, that the...
Putting Up the Dog. Capitalist Wilson is also moving into Communist countries. He has licensed Intertower, a joint venture of Cyrus Eaton Jr. and Occidental Petroleum, to put up 36 inns in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia; in most cases, the governments will own the inns. Encouraged by the talk...