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...example: Exxon's recent explanations of how it will spend $16 billion on expansion and exploration over the next four years. Other ads are heayyhanded, self-serving and sprinkled with half truths. Asks one Mobil ad: "Are oil profits big? Right. Big enough? Wrong. So says the Chase Manhattan Bank." That is like asking American Motors whether small cars have a future. A Gulf ad correctly states that the energy crisis is partly a result of Government regulations that kept oil and gasoline prices so low that they encouraged overconsumption; the ad naturally does not mention that...
...what really spoils the formula is a thin and meandering script by John Milius and listless direction by Ted Post, whose work cannot stand even glancing comparison with Don Siegel's authoritative handling of Dirty Harry. The film climaxes, as all policiers apparently must, with a car chase, but it is nowhere near as interesting as the successful off-casting of nice Hal Holbrook as a heavy. He is the only one present who seems genuinely interested in What's going...
...oilmen argue persuasively that they need even richer earnings to finance the heavy costs of stepping up exploration, leasing new oil fields and building refineries-a point that they are emphasizing in a quickly mounted advertising barrage. The Chase Manhattan Bank estimates that by 1985 the industry will pump an awesome $800 billion into such ventures...
...with a Calabrian-Sicilian accent calling to negotiate the ransom for her son. The gang demanded $ 17 million but finally settled for $2,890,000. To deliver the money, Billionaire Getty, who lives in England, sent to Rome a tall, craggy-faced American, identified by Italian newspapers as Fletcher Chase, 54, of San Diego. Chase packed 52,000 banknotes in lire into three sacks, but not before police had microfilmed each...
Sacks of Lire. Then, carefully following the kidnapers' instructions, Chase, in a rented car, headed south on the autostrada toward Naples. Just after passing Lagonegro, south of Naples, members of the gang pulled up alongside in a Citroën and pelted Chase's car with pebbles while the men inside rubbed their fingers together as a signal for money. Chase got the message and pulled over to the side. While he was handing over the sacks of lire, a car driven by a Rome detective with a pretty blonde policewoman at his side halted near by. Pretending...