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Although the report does not charge that the oil companies conspired to produce gasoline shortages, it does assert that they have used them to "eliminate competition." Over the years, the report says, tax regulations, depletion allowances and the now suspended oil-import quota system have allowed the 20 biggest firms-those that control most domestic crude production, proved domestic reserves, refining capacity, pipelines and gas stations-to make tremendous profits at the production level, while holding down supplies and locking out independent refiners...
...three town ladies with pretensions to virtue, the Lady Fidget of Christina Pickles comes off best, though more vocal modulation would help. As her sidekicks Mrs. Dainty Fidget and Mrs. Squeamish, Grayce Grant and Joan Pape provide their quota of amusement. Curt Dawson and Ronald Frazier (who likes to smoke a long clay pipe) are a trifle bland as Harcourt and Dorilant, two gallants who envy Horner's success. Rex Everhart, as Sir Jasper, is foolish enough but lacks class, and should be told that the game is blindman's-buff, not blindman's-bluff. David Rounds, with beauty spots...
...Church of Greece. The rest, some 33 dioceses in the "new lands" of northern Greece, which the Greeks won from the Turks more than a half-century ago, still owes a residual loyalty to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Demetrios I. Following tradition, Demetrios wanted the usual quota of Northern representatives in the Synod, picked on the basis of seniority. Instead, Ieronymos engineered the election of younger "men of merit" who backed his own policies, and he ignored geographical criteria for distributing Synod seats...
...part of its plan, the University will now treat maternity leave as part of sick leave, granting women time off with pay as long as they have not used up their yearly quota of days off. The University has also initiated a new grievance procedure, begun giving part-time appointments with tenure, opened up search procedures, and set target figures for hiring women and minorities in faculty and administrative positions...
...issue concerning the conspicuous deficiencies in the CHUL's housing policies. I was equally struck by the remarkable similarity between the objections you raised -- among them the neglect of individual freedom and preference, the unpopularity of said policies among the persons affected, the mindless arbitrariness of the quota system, Aand the futility and general undesirability of the "ineffective social engineering" perpetrated by "bureaucratic manipulators" -- and the arguments advanced by those of us who are opposed to forced busing of students to achieve racial "balance" in primary and secondary public schools in the United States, which have hardly had the enthusiastic...