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...companies might be able to manage quite well without an oil depletion allowance today had prices been hiked gradually in the past. A Rhodes scholar and Harvard Ph.D. in economics, Stamas joined Exxon in 1960 as a financial analyst, rose to head its international petroleum planning division before a six-month tour of duty in the U.S. Commerce Department. Before joining the public-affairs department in 1971, Stamas spent nearly a year as chief economist working on oil-import policy at Exxon...
...days of the Caetano regime. The press law bans "ideological aggression against the program of the Armed Forces Movement," like inciting soldiers to desert or workers to walk off their jobs. Violating editors are subject to fines of up to 500,000 escudos ($20,000) and a six-month ban on publication of their papers...
...party arrived from Washington to plan the first visit of a U.S. President to Cairo since Franklin D. Roosevelt's trip in 1943. This followed the successful end of the U.S. Navy's minesweeping operations in the Suez Canal; some forces will remain, however, to supervise the six-month task of removing wrecked ships from the canal and reopening it to traffic...
...lange of show business careers followed, some of them successful. Dale cut a few records, but "after a while that got boring." He followed with a six-month spin as a disc jockey, spent two years as host of a daytime TV comedy show and wrote songs for films like Georgy Girl and Shalako. He also played a variety of antic characters in 13 films in the Carry On ... series, and there he perfected his tumbledown, knockabout maneuvers. "Falling is an art," he says. "It's a matter of relaxing and of knowing which part of the body will...
...Indianapolis, a six-month investigative effort by a team of Star reporters turned up a pattern of police corruption connected with prostitution, narcotics and stolen goods. The newspaper series caused Mayor Richard Lugar to fire the city's three top law-enforcement officials and bring in a former Secret Service officer to clean...