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...officials privately concede that the crude-oil allocation plan, which was ordered by Congress, has been an "unmitigated disaster." Simon last week called on Congress to suspend the program for 90 days to allow time to amend the system. Such a move would temporarily enable the majors to keep all the oil they import for themselves and should persuade them to step up imports. One possible change in any new allocation plan: only small refineries turning out no more than 30,000 bbl. per day would be permitted to buy from companies in the U.S. That limitation would probably satisfy...
...express our support for Solzhenitsyn and the Russian people for whom he is willing to die, the United States must immediately suspend all cultural and economic contacts with the Kremlin despots. To hope that these contacts might bring about a liberalization of Soviet rule in the face of last week's events is not only naive, but fatuous. To continue them merely serves to stain the honor of the United States beyond earthly redemption. Laurence Krute '74 Jewish Defense League Stephen Rosen '74 Young Americans for Freedom
...Lieberson right at the start was the shortage of vinyl now beginning to hit the industry hard. Vinyl, known in the trade as PVC (polyvinyl chloride), is the chemical byproduct of crude oil from which records are made. As a result of oil shortages, Columbia has been forced to suspend its $1.98 Harmony pop label; it also trimmed its November output by postponing several releases until 1974. In general, the industry will probably have to opt for greater selectivity in its releases-or, as Lieberson puts it, "an end to buckshotting-throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks...
...orgy involving the apple pickers, a family Civil War sword and a death by drowning. Under the black comic claptrap in Black Conceit is a deeply felt, uncompromising book about an idealist's disappointment that human nature does not prove perfectible, that human decency, liberally applied, cannot suspend the law of the jungle. "We go on making choices, after the original helplessness," Coffin reflects, "and ultimately it becomes our fault...
...city's housing modernization programs have been so slow-moving, Opert said, that the DCA may be forced to suspend its aid to these programs...