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Wouk is still at his best when his feet are firmly astride a swaying deck: the battles at sea provide the novel's swiftest and most knowing passages. Yet for all the exhilaration his warriors display in combat, Wouk knows the bitter price of valor. Here and there he lectures too self-consciously. But even as a preacher the author can be effective. Through the voice of Pug, Wouk writes that the world's destiny rests on a pathetically simple hope: "Most people, even the most fanatical and boneheaded Marxists, even the craziest nationalists and revolution aries, love...
...knew it all along-and Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Artoo Detoo and Threepio receive the gratitude of freedom lovers everywhere. For most audiences the only sadness in the climax is that the film ends and cannot go on and on and on. It is surely one of the swiftest two hours on celluloid...
...Swiftest Transfer of Money in History...
...take" from a barrel of oil, less than $1 at the start of the decade, was lifted from $1.99 before the Arab-Israeli war 15 months ago to $3.44 at the end of 1973 to more than $10 at the end of 1974. The result is the greatest and swiftest transfer of wealth in all history: the 13 OPEC countries earned $112 billion from the rest of the world last year. Because they could not begin to spend it all, they ran up a payments surplus of $60 billion. This sudden shift of money shook the whole fragile structure...
...Exxon's adaptability is being put to its stiffest test by the swiftest and most drastic changes in the business and political climate that oilmen have ever experienced. The world's voracious energy demands have combined with Arab embargoes and production cutbacks to create a shortage the end of which no one can foresee. Politically, governments in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America are asserting ownership rights to more and more of the petroleum pumped out by the "seven sisters" of world oil: Exxon, Royal Dutch/Shell, Texaco, Mobil, Gulf, Standard of California and British Petroleum. By the 1980s...