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...deal arranged by E.R.A.P. Chief Pierre Guillaumat, 57, a longtime De Gaulle lieutenant, E.R.A.P. will search for new oil reserves over 85,000 sq. mi. of Iranian desert and offshore tracts in the Persian Gulf. The French twist is that E.R.A.P. will operate as a contractor to Iran rather than a concession-holding partner. Instead of splitting earnings with the host country on a 25-75 basis, as most major international oil companies do, France will turn over half the oil reserves it finds to Iran, in return for rights to pump out as much as 45% of the rest...
...senior Rick Loomis drove off tackle for a touchdown. A second period safety and a 72-yard drive in the final period accounted for Kirkland's other points. The drive was culminated with a 25-yard scoring pass to Bruce Corker. Dudley had its moment of glory when John Twist blocked a kick and marched the ball away to the Kirkland four-yard mark before fumbling...
Batman and Robin are denounced as a pair of latent homosexuals. Why do teen-agers idolize the Beatles? Explains Joyce Brothers, formerly a TV "authority" and now a columnist on psychological matters: "It's because of their 'Oliver' haircuts and too-short jackets. Oliver Twist, you will recall, was an orphan. By embracing a quartet of orphans as heroes, our teen-agers achieve two unconscious goals. They symbolically 'kill off' the adult generation. They show how neglected and misunderstood they believe themselves...
Opera is enjoyable, she says, "but I could have sung six concerts in the time it took to rehearse Julius Caesar." In a recital, the rich tonalities of her deep velvet voice come to full bloom, lending breadth and a somber ecstasy to a Mahler song, a wry twist to a Hugo Wolf lied...
...lonely lady dining at Schrafft's "stared morosely at the cherry in the martini." The book ends with the intelligence, given a whole page to itself, that "a martini has an olive"; although, to be more precise, it is more frequently encountered nowadays in the company of a twist of dry lemon peel, or probably just the stare of the lonely lady. The book remorselessly follows Rona's career from infancy (she was a whiz at toilet training, never gave trouble about sucking her thumb, and later got A's in practically everything) up to an affair...