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With only two published works to their credit (the other is a children's musical play about Joseph in Egypt), the young team of Lloyd Webber and Rice have pushed forward the frontier possibilities of rock opera and made, just for starters, what Rice calls "a million quid" apiece ($2.4 million). They are becomingly modest about their talents, grateful for their extraordinary luck and sensibly reserved about future plans...
...must mean more controls for the oil industry rather than less; recognizing that we are going to have to give up vast portions of what we consider to be our inherent rights in free, private enterprise in order to arrive at an implemented national oil policy. There is a quid pro quo for the backing of the Government and that is to accomplish certain things for the nation and not necessarily for the company itself...
...also could route Alaskan oil to the Midwest by building a pipeline through Canada's Mackenzie River valley (TIME, March 29). This would encourage exploitation of Canadian oilfields that lie along the route. As a quid pro quo, the U.S. would have to make some guarantee to divert Venezuelan or domestically produced oil to Eastern Canada if Arab nations shut off Mideast oil. Eastern Canada is not connected by pipeline to the oilfields in the Canadian West and the Arctic, but buys Mideast crude because it is cheaper...
...saucepan lid the same as a quid...
WHEN Decimal Day dawned last week, the British kept the pound (or quid) and such variations as the 5-, 10-and 20-pound notes. But in dividing the pound into 100 new pence instead of 240 old pennies, they lost all their old coins. The ha'penny, thrup'ny and sixpenny pieces and the shilling in all its variations are being withdrawn from circulation. They lost something more: many colorful examples of cockney slang, which substitutes rhymed phrases for action words-such as "gawd forbids" for bothersome kids and "trouble and strife" for a nagging wife. No rhymes...