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...just such a joint venture that touched off the rush to the North Slope this year. Geologists have long been aware that Alaska holds one of the last great known deposits of the world's main energy source. The Navy has controlled a 37,000-sq.-mi. North Slope petroleum reserve since World War II, but found no need to develop what it considered only a strategic reserve. Farther south at Cook Inlet, working wells produce 195,000 bbl. daily and have made Alaska the U.S.'s eighth largest oil-producing state. Three years ago. with U.S. consumption...
...support the rigs, and the huge swarms of bugs that plague workmen in summer have disappeared. Meanwhile, oilmen and speculators have applied for 5,000 new leases on tracts all over the state. Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos, whose tribes were there before the white men, originally claimed 469,000 sq. mi. (80% of the state) under an old, almost-forgotten law. Now they are asking the Interior Department for a settlement of 62,500 sq. mi. and $500 million. Interior has so far refused, and ultimate settlement will be up to the next Administration...
...nonetheless not a very good film. The camerawork is frenetic but uninventive and stifling, the sound poor, and the subject treated too superficially for its two-hour running time. Still, an emotional tour de force, with acting that occasionally approaches greatness. Starting next Wednesday at the CINEMA KENMORE SQ., in Kenmore Sq...
Loves of Ondine--Warhol. At the CINEMA KENMORE SQ. (262-3700) through Tuesday...
...Queen--Transvestism meets cinema verite. At the HARVARD SQ...