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...most visible and vocal advocates of keeping oil prices high is Jamshid Amuzegar, Iran's shrewd and dapper Interior Minister. Amuzegar was chief negotiator for the producer countries in the 1971 settlement that first humbled Western oil companies by forcing costly price and tax boosts. Since then, he has become the Shah's right-hand oil expert. In an interview in Teheran last week with TIME Correspondents Karsten Pragerand William Stewart, Amuzegar talked forcefully on a range of topics...
...center of the storm was William Egan Colby, 54, the CIA's director for the past year. Shrewd and capable, Colby has sought from the day he took office as director to channel more of the CIA's efforts into the gathering, evaluation and analysis of information and less into covert actions?the "operational" side of the intelligence business. Says he: "The CIA's cloak-and-dagger days have ended...
Except for the prehistory, Michener paces his narrative well. He organizes the book as a series of interconnected novellas, focusing each on one or two central characters. The tale of the shrewd French trapper Pasquinel and his Scottish partner McKeag becomes a roving chronicle of the West from St. Louis to the Rockies in the early fur-trading days. In a later set piece, Michener brings pageantry to the ancient cliché of the cattle drovers beset by thirst and outlaws on the long trail from Jacks-borough, Texas, to the South Platte...
...most feared puncher since Sonny Listen. After a few blows from Foreman, the average heavy punching bag begins to look like a pancake. So do most of his opponents; none of his last eight fights have gone beyond the second round. Says his trainer, Dick Sadler, a shrewd old boxing hand who once managed Listen: "Anything George hits, he's gonna hurt...
...surprisingly, the new league has introduced a mini-galaxy of new stars. Bell Quarterback Jim ("King") Corcoran, a castoff from five N.F.L. teams, has finally found a home in Philadelphia with his shrewd passing game. In Birmingham, Matthew Reed, a black quarterback from Grambling, replaced the injured George Mira for two games and coolly led the undefeated Americans to late fourth-quarter wins...