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...students whose bursar's cards were collected at Thursday's anti-ROTC sit-in adopted a resolution last night criticizing the administration for "using disciplinary action as a political weapon...
...automakers are marketing more than last year, when a strike at Ford stalled production, and sales amounted to 8,300,000. Ford has won a 27% share of this year's bigger market, a gain of 2.8 percentage points, mostly at the expense of General Motors, whose share is 51.8%, down three points. Chrysler has advanced much in sales and a bit in market share, with 18%, while American Motors continues to hold...
...season is favorable because the muskeg has frozen hard enough to support the rigs, and the huge swarms of bugs that plague workmen in summer have disappeared. Meanwhile, oilmen and speculators have applied for 5,000 new leases on tracts all over the state. Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos, whose tribes were there before the white men, originally claimed 469,000 sq. mi. (80% of the state) under an old, almost-forgotten law. Now they are asking the Interior Department for a settlement of 62,500 sq. mi. and $500 million. Interior has so far refused, and ultimate settlement will...
Either way, Alaska is bound to benefit. Though the fields are now being worked by outside labor, oil should eventually alleviate chronic unemployment among the state's 270,000 residents, whose two main occupations are fishing and working at the U.S. military bases. The state government will collect a 12.5% royalty in the form of oil, which it will sell to processors for the profitable petrochemical trade that they already conduct with Japan. Eventually, oil will mean far more to the state than gold, of which about $750 million worth has been mined since 1880. Only $760,000 worth...
Dickens was congenitally unable to invent villains less interesting than his heroes. As Fagin, Ron Moody makes the beaky, sneaky old vulture a tragicomic creature whose greatest thievery is that of the film. If he has lost most of the Semitism, Moody also has dropped all of the anti. Harry Secombe is the endomorphic Mr. Bumble to the burble, and Oliver Reed is appropriately thick and menacing as Bill Sikes...