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...indictments, and the continuing investigations, center on violations of the Government's six-year-old, two-tier price structure for domestic crude. This sets a low rate (now an average $5.65 per bbl.) for "old" oil already in production and, as an incentive for more exploration, a higher price (now $12.53) for "new" finds. The fraud involves false certification and sale of the cheaper "old" oil as expensive "new," an easy matter of fixing papers to hide origins, since all the crude looks the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Cracking Open a Crude Scandal | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...road with Vincent, a one-man show based on the life of Van Gogh. Both actors are puzzled by the Star Trek phenomenon. "Frankly, I can't get a grip on what has happened," says Shatner. "I'll see a 60-year-old grandmother holding a six-year-old child, and both are fans. The whole thing has an air of unreality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: New Treat for Trekkies | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...part will come," she announces with all the awed conviction of a child who knows that Santa will come for Christmas. Her anticipation is boundless when she begins to read a new script--"even the mimeographed sheets smell good." The dark eyes dance; one suddenly sees the little six-year-old who danced in her nightgown before that mirror...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: An Actor's Actress | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

Long before she saw her first play, Marian Seldes knew she would become an actress. She knew as a six-year-old standing before a mirror in a nightgown that became "a costume in some dream," knew as a student standing before the ballet barre, "trying too hard to be a dancer," knew as a 16-year-old, standing before her parents and "auditioning" as Joan of Arc. So when she graduated from high school she turned down the college acceptances--among them, one from Radcliffe College--and took her first job in the theater (she ended up in Cambridge...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: A Life on the Stage | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...military rulers celebrate the fourth anniversary of the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie I. More important, from Nkomo's and Mugabe's point of view, they had a chance to confer at length with visiting Cuban President Fidel Castro, one of their principal supporters in the six-year-old war against the Salisbury regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: The Only Way Left Is War | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

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