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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discovered and developed. Unfortunately, the oil may just not be there to find. Even though oil companies drilled more than 48,000 new wells around the nation last year, nearly double the amount of 1973, production continues to decline gently but steadily. A new crash program of drilling could turn out to be a multibillion dollar disappointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Use Less, Pay More | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Only one man has been executed since 1967: Gary Gilmore, who also asked to die, and was killed by a firing squad in Utah two years ago. But unless the law takes an unexpected turn toward leniency, a decade-long de facto moratorium on the death penalty may come to an end starting this summer. If so, many condemned men who definitely want to live will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Death Wish Denied | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...give front-page play to a couple of vicious anti-Carter stories. Last week the government of South Africa admitted that it made available $11.5 million from a secret slush fund in 1974 during McGoff s unsuccessful attempt to buy the Washington Star. Presumably, South Africa hoped to turn the Star into a public relations organ for that country's racism. Loeb and McGoff are anachronisms, but hardly powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: The Powerless Powerful | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

While the other thinclads watched their skin turn seven shades of red, the Harvard jumping contingent was breezing past its Princeton counterparts in the comfortable confines of the Indoor Track and Tennis complex...

Author: By John R. Gennari, | Title: Crimson Thinclads Cage Tigers, 100-63 | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Goaltender First then hit defenseman Haywood Miller with an outlet pass, and Miller fed Bill Forbush at midfield. Forbush connected with Frank Prezioso, who in turn sent Pete Predun into the offensive zone...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: Harvard Laxmen Stun Brown in Overtime, 13-12 | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

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