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...separate investigation of price increases on propane (bottled gas). In addition, the Government has refused to allow the oil companies to pass on to their customers $412 million in accumulated costs. Some of the bigger names on the list of oil companies making refunds or being forced to swallow costs: Ashland, Atlantic Richfield, Continental, Skelly, Phillips, Amerada Hess, Sun, Shell, Texaco. Among the larger refunds or rollbacks are Charter Oil's $19.8 million and Kerr-McGee's $23.5 million...
...presidential misdeeds in the era of Watergate, none was easier to understand and harder to swallow than the fact that Richard Nixon cheated on his income taxes. Because of Ford's pardon, Nixon is beyond the reach of the law, but those who abetted him are not. Edward Morgan, an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Nixon Administration, is serving a four-month jail term for his part in the fraud. Last week Frank DeMarco, 49, a Los Angeles tax attorney, and Ralph Newman, 63, a Chicago appraiser, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington...
...year salary to cushion his fall. But the 150 resumes he has sent out-125 of them to airlines-have evoked no favorable responses so far. "To be 50 years of age and looking for a job," he admits, "is a bitter pill to swallow...
Locomotion Flashes. Lloyd believes that the mimicry is not always perfect; male fireflies-apparently noting slight differences in the flashes and suspecting female wiles-are not always taken in by the ruse. But the female Photuris generally manages to lure, capture and swallow at least one male out of every ten for whom she sets...
...Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.: "If the programs are tremendously successful, it could well mean that Detroit is borrowing sales from future months." Eisenberg believes that if post-rebate results are disappointing, the automakers will probably have to cut prices permanently, even if that means they will have to swallow losses...