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With memories of long gasoline lines still fresh, the earnings reported by many od companies last week could hardly be expected to be greeted by cheers. All told, the industry had its best second quarter ever. Profits of the 23 biggest U.S. firms totaled $5.47 billion, a rise of 66% over the same period last year. Among the five large international companies, Texaco's earnings leaped by 132% to $365 million. Earnings of the others: Exxon, up 20% to $830 million; Mobil, up 38% to $404 million; Socal, up 61% to $412 million; and Gulf...
...mainly to get her out of Washington. On the set, there is no concern about life enervating art. Altman stores up energy by gobbling yogurt, Burnett is a yogist, and Bacall goes through a daily dozen of what she calls "lying down" exercises. The only lump is Jackson. "I OD on coffee and cigarettes every morning," she confesses. "That's all the exercise I need...
...little information do you need to recognize a face? How generalized can it become before the specific relation ship of features falls apart? And which features are the first to go? Close's meth od is to grid off a rectangle into squares - up to 600 of them - and to use each square as a part of the portrait. The coarser the grid, the more detail is lost...
...interesting, except that there's not much else to say about the Janus film festival running this week at the Harvard Square. With a couple of exceptions, there will be two solid masterpieces a day, so many miles of beautiful celluloid that the only hazard is OD-ing on quality. To shake the habit there's always High Plains Drifter, a reminder that the medium still has some problems. Eastwood may drive a locomotive through the saloon in this one, or annihilate some illegally immigrated Chicanos or something...
Among the good news is the improvement in the nation's housing. From 1940 to 1970, the number of families liv ing in housing officially classified as sub standard dropped dramatically, from 48.6% to 7.4%. During the same peri od, the number of persons aged 25 to 29 who were college-educated rose from...