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This yearly event will just be winding down by the time you hit the state, so hurry or you'll miss it. What? You don't want to look at the artistic output of the Winter Park Public School System? Aaaah, you miss the point. Ladies and Gentlemen, in one hour of the Winter Park Art Festival you will see more gorgeous specimens of the opposite sex than in your entire college career to date. It's guaranteed--look on the back of the package. If you can stand close contact with five hundred formless paintings and sculptures...
Even so, a number of economists do not dismiss out of hand the possibility of a depression. Those who use the term define it, quite imprecisely, as a prolonged period, perhaps two or three years, during which output and incomes shrink and business bankruptcies and unemployment rise to heights not seen since before World War II. Says Alan Greenspan, who was chief economic adviser to President Gerald Ford: "This scenario still has a low probability, but it should no longer be put into the bizarre or kooky category...
...Saudis, in fact, who forced OPEC's price reduction from $36 per bbl. to $34 per bbl. last October. The Saudis have trimmed production to about 7.5 million bbl. daily from a high of 10.5 million last summer, but experts feel that they would have to cut output to 7 million or even 6 million bbl. to dry up the glut and stop the slide in prices. Sheik Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahayan, President of the United Arab Emirates, reportedly was in Saudi Arabia last week in an at tempt to persuade King Khalid to send a delegation...
...PRESENT AGE has a habit of demanding sustained output from its artists, even at the cost of substandard quality Witness the proliferation of Saturday morning cartoons in response to the nationwide popularity of "The Flintstones." What followed was a wave of amazingly identical animated series, all featuring a family and it, highly humanoid housepet living in an unusual situation, i.e. on another planet. The fact that many of these disappeared from the networks within a few months hints at the disparity between perceived demand and real satisfaction, and underlines the need for artistic endeavors to proceed relatively independent of popularity...
...quoted price of approximately $33.20 per bbl., thereby threatening to spread price cutting to the Persian Gulf. OPEC's president, Sheik Mani Said al-Oteiba of the United Arab Emirates, last week indicated that further price reductions might force the organization to institute some cuts in output in order to firm up prices. But OPEC has never in its history been able to agree upon a program to curtail production by all members...