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...give the U.S. a chance to try its strategy for bringing down oil prices. If the citizens of the oil-importing countries can be persuaded to adopt conservation measures, and if a formula for limiting exports is accepted, then?the Americans optimistically reason?the oil exporters would start to quarrel over how to share the shrinking market. This could eventually weaken and perhaps break up the oil cartel, permitting prices to respond to the demands of an uncontrolled marketplace...
Major Vitor Alves, a Minister Without Portfolio in the Gonçalves Cabinet, told TIME'S Robert Kroon last week that other members of the government had never had any quarrel with Spínola about the revolution's fundamental aim of restoring civil liberties and holding democratic elections. "The trouble was," Alves said, "that Spínola had a different analysis of how to go about this process. He was too pessimistic, too gloomy, too rigid...
...first of its kind in New York City to combine office, retail and residential facilities, Olympic Tower is half-owned by one Greek who should have no quarrel with Americans-Aristotle Onassis, who is reported to be taking an apartment there. The operators promise every conceivable convenience, from private, temperature-controlled wine cellars to a supersophisticated electronic surveillance system that will yawp at the concierge's desk downstairs if a Miró on a wall is touched by a burglar -or even the owner...
Once started, he swiftly became editor of a magazine called Women, turning out stories and articles on such subjects as "Do Rich Women Quarrel More Frequently than Poor?" as well as a column signed "Barbara." But one journal could not contain him; Bennett had realized that he could write anything. Within a few years it was a critical commonplace to grade his output: Prime Bennett (literature), Pure Bennett (for fiction lovers), and Just Bennett (for those who read anything...
...teen-ager in the early 1930s and served six years in prison as their accomplice in the murder of a Texas deputy sheriff, but later claimed that the pair had threatened to kill him if he tried to leave them; of a shotgun blast in a predawn quarrel with an acquaintance; in Houston...