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...movie to be aired on March 11. Wells' fantasy of a chemist made invisible, then driven mad by his own invention has been updated. "The military industrial complex wants to get hold of my formula for becoming invisible," explains McCallum. Jokes on the set never run out. "The prop man keeps changing the name on my chair. First it said Claude Rains, then Unknown, and now it says Shadow...
Students had just taken over Mass Hall, demanding that the University sell its stock in Gulf Oil, whose tax payments helped prop up Portuguese rule in Angola. Student picketers circled Mass Hall, 24 hours a day, mindful of what had happened to the occupiers of University Hall a few years back and the mining of Haiphong harbor earlier in the week. The Kuumba Singers sang and six or a dozen people played bongo drums. If Farber had been thinking about Harvard's image, there might have been some reason for it. But the Gazette memo talked only of much loftier...
...Enders Plan, conceived by Thomas Enders, an Assistant Secretary of State, would prop domestic oil prices at high levels even after foreign prices recede. Purpose: to stem any rush back to cheap oil, continue pressure for development of alternate energy sources and shield against any future Arab oil embargo...
...seemingly innocent acts as buying a toothbrush or a pair of pants or a television set. Each time we participate in the American market we help perpetuate a time-hallowed structure of domination by the rich nations over the poor. In most of the products we buy we help prop up national companies and global corporations whose accumulated economic advantages enable them to drain off much of the wealth of developing nations, preventing those same nations from developing their own industrial capacity. Through a monopoly of necessary technology and an almost exclusive hold on available funds for investment, businessmen...
Prices will continue to rise less and less controllably as long as businessmen, union leaders and consumers take it for granted that they can always count on the Government to intervene to prop up jobs, incomes and profit. Reflation now, they say, might produce a momentary upturn, but it would only lead to another round of price rises, another consumer panic, another slowdown in business investment-and a more devastating bust. They worry that...