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...While both crews have about equal experience, the Crimson sports a much younger roster. Captain Charlie Altekruse is the only senior, and four juniors and three sophs fill the rest of the shell...
Japan was not the only customer unwilling to pay the exorbitantly high prices. In recent weeks British Petroleum and Shell have been stalling on new Iranian contracts while letting markets show that the asking price was too high. Said one IEA official: "This summer people would probably have done without Iranian crude anyway. The Iranians themselves have created their problems by trying to charge too much...
Parker has had the oarsmen working out with a new-fangled, v-shaped, high-in-the-water, but slightly unstable Carbocraft shell during the weekday workouts, but the varsity has yet to abandon the reliable and more stable Schoenbrod model for any races...
Little Oskar's story makes a fine scenario and Tin Drum is marvelously entertaining, even engrossing at times. Yet a question persists: why make this film? Must every literary classic stumble shell-shocked onto the screen? Time and a host of bad adaptations have shown that literature and cinema are not compatible cousins, that by their very nature, good novels will not make good films, just as the exciting visual effects of film cannot be duplicated in print...
...going after domestic heavy crude, the U.S. could double its present oil reserves of 29 billion bbl. The leading heavy oil producer is Shell Oil, which is already pumping 85,000 bbl. of it per day. That is about 20% of the company's total U.S. output and nearly half the nation's total heavy oil production. The company last year paid an estimated $3.5 billion for the Kern County oilfields of Belridge Oil Co., which are believed to contain up to 375 million bbl. of heavy crude, by far the largest such deposit in the country...