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...distinguished U.S. oil economist has challenged that assumption. In an impressively documented book titled The Control of Oil, just published by Pantheon Books, Dr. John M. Blair argues that the real culprits are the major international oil companies, known familiarly as the Seven Sisters (Exxon, Mobil, Standard Oil Co. of California, Texaco, Gulf, Royal Dutch Shell, and British Petroleum). In Blair's view, the companies actually aided and abetted the OPEC increase, while pleading helplessness to their price-gouged public. "A form of bilateral symbiotic oligopoly" is the author's complicated if caustic term to describe the relationship...
...KATHARINE BRIGGS 481 pages. Pantheon...
...pages. Pantheon...
...most thrilling World Series ever. They had just demolished the Philadelphia Phillies in three straight games for the National League pennant. By the time they took the field against the American League's Designated Luddites, the New York Yankees, they were playing for their place in the pantheon of the game's great teams. When the four-game sweep of the hapless Yanks was over, they...
...version of Roots, like the book, will cover not only the family's origins in Africa but also generations of race relations in the New World. Also, Haley's chronicle opportunely overlaps the publication of Herbert Gutman's Black Family in Slavery and Freedom 1750-1925 (Pantheon), a revisionist study that persuasively disputes the notion that slavery destroyed the black family structure...