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That is just how Youngs Drug Products Corp., the makers of Trojans, feel, so they were delighted last week to see KNTV reinstate their spots. For them, KNTV is a beacon of sorts. They hope local stations' acceptance will soften up the networks. Now it seems, resistance has begun to crack. This week station KJAN-TV in Canton, Ohio, will start running the ads. As for KNTV, it views its pioneering role with mixed feelings. Says Yearwood: "It's a hell of a claim to fame accepting the first rubber commercial...
...soften the blow, the Administration intends to drop its $2 per bbl. tariff on imported oil. Congress is almost sure to extend through next year $9.4 billion in tax cuts enacted for 1975, and the Administration will have little choice but to go along. Still deeper tax cuts might be needed too. To get them enacted, the White House and Congress would have to muster a far greater willingness to compose their differences than is indicated by the long and sorry record of their wrangling over energy...
...Really, you just can't have sympathy with that kind of thing." Carie seemed to be trying to explain, to soften the harshness. "This is the big time--well..." She paused and looked at Jackie for confirmation. "Yeah, this is the big time, and you have to know what you're doing. You either make it or you break...
Many already have, and that is the problem as the U.S. sees it. So far, seven Rio signators have ignored the treaty in order to maintain or establish diplomatic relations with Cuba, including, most recently, Venezuela and Colombia. Although the U.S. has no plans to soften soon its own stance on Cuba, it is accepting the inevitable. It now prefers that the OAS formally end the ban rather than doing it de facto...
...developed wells brought in by major oil companies would be sold at a fixed price of up to 750 per thousand cu. ft. Both the White House and the Senate Democrats would hold the price of "old" gas from wells already in production at roughly its present level to soften the economic impact of the higher new gas prices. The White House, however, has called for decontrol of all new gas, allowing the price to rise to whatever the market will bear. Senate Commerce Committee experts predict that that approach would raise the fuel bill of the average U.S. family...