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Time is a precious commodity in the White House. If Presidents dip into trivia, there is no end to the process. We have been through L.B.J.'s worrying about how Air Force uniform trousers were tailored around the crotch and Jimmy Carter's arranging the tennis schedule for the White House court. Our Presidents could take a lesson from Egypt's Anwar Sadat, who perhaps has had more big ideas than any other statesman of this era. He purposely clears his schedule for long hours of rest, walking and pure solitude. The Egyptian President takes the facts...
...Oriole General Manager Hank Peters: "Not in my judgment. I don't think any athlete in any team sport can be important enough to command that kind of money." But Winfield had a ready retort: "Everything has a market value. How do you set a price on a precious...
...market since World War II by the oil interests in order to keep up the price of crude. A sometime Los Angeles cop and his wife are killed when it looks as if they are about to go public with the secret. The search for their killers-and the precious equations they were killed for-leads Detective George C. Scott to Germany and Switzerland and to involvement not only with remnants of the Third Reich but with modern terrorists as well, among them Marthe Keller, who is assigned to seduce and then betray Scott...
...years have passed since OPEC, in a few short weeks of 1973 and 1974, began radically manipulating worldwide petroleum prices by increasing the cost of a barrel of crude from $2.41 to $10.95. Since then, oil-consuming countries have paid the oil producers a staggering $370 billion for the precious black product that is essential to industrial survival. Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani warns that oil could easily rise to as much as $60 per bbl. in the foreseeable future...
...village falls to guerrillas; Saigon orphans cry out in blind despair-and the effect is bracingly therapeutic. Talent does that, when it gels as it does here, when it infects all the participants on both sides of the footlights. How I Got That Story makes splendid use of that precious theatrical asset, the playgoer's imagination. Working together, Gray, Rothman, Stern and Gunton-and the audience-create a most benign conspiracy...