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...firms in European countries, like France's Compagnie Franchise Des Petroles, have not been spectacularly successful at developing new production. A U.S. federal energy corporation, they say, could not add much to private industry's expertise in exploration and production. At the same time, oilmen raise the specter of socialism. "What comes next?" asks Frank Ikard, head of the American Petroleum Institute. "How about a Federal Livestock Corporation? Or a Federal Iron and Steel Corporation...
...specter of Leopold Bloom haunts this book... The easiest entry into its rhythms and movement is to recall the Bloomsday odyssey. I go out into the alien world, hard fearful, lonely. My afternoon stroll passes Sandymount strand: lustful, yearning, fleshy, I descend into a blasphemous bedeviled Nighttown.... and then I wander home...
...foreign reserves," he declared. "If we do not have adequate rains, we will be faced with serious famine in which people will die." Drought and flood have ravaged the country for two years. Unless the rains that begin in March are normally heavy, the country will face the specter of widespread starvation...
Nightmarish visions of last year's Cornell encounter at Watson (remember when the Big Red came from a 4-1 deficit to edge Harvard 5-4 in OT?) and the ever-haunting specter of the "letdown" the night after against hapless Colgate had most fans believing that the Crimson icemen would joint the mortal ranks of the once-beaten in the ECAC by Monday morning...
Dent in Power. Though a Democrat, Sprague had served as first assistant to Republican D.A. Arlen Specter from 1966 to 1974. He so admired his boss that he turned down an offer from Democratic leaders to run for D.A. in his own right. The Democrats then nominated F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, a successful criminal lawyer who trounced Specter in the election. Fitzpatrick wasted no time reorganizing the office. "After all, I campaigned against the operations of this office," he points out. One big change: assistant D.A.s were told they could come directly to the boss with problems. Previously they...