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...California) showed record second-quarter earnings of $116.8 million ($1.44 per share), up from 1967's $107.8 million ($1.33 per share). Chairman O. N. Miller attributed the 8% gain to a 15% jump from 1967's pace of 1,807,500 bbl. daily, plus a "continued strong upward trend" in chemical-sales revenues...
...hours, communication connections in seconds, shanty log cabins having grown into giant skyscrapers, and intelligence and education at an all time high, Blacks and Whites have not yet learned to live together. The White Anglo-Saxon Protestant power structure has made an all out effort to impede the upward mobility and social assimilation of Black Americans. But despite this continued unjust act, some Blacks have pushed their way toward the top. The going has been all uphill but there have been occasional peeps at how life is at the foot of the rainbow...
...blazes on Majorca for ten months of the year. It lights the baked forms with a harsh kind of super-reality. The sallow leaves of a dead cactus writhe upward like a petrified fountain. A palm hangs against the sky like a bursting skyrocket. On the ground, a beetle crawls. Above it, crouches a man - no figment of a dream but a com pact figure with grey thinning hair, a potato nose, and dressed all in sober brown. "Once," he "I was passionate about insects. I painted many of them." In fact, he still does...
...Colombo's "mono-home" is multipurpose, can serve to house a TV or to store kitchen utensils. "A bachelor buys some of these pieces for his home," Colombo explains. "He marries and he adds more pieces; he has children and he adds more pieces-it goes upward, sideways, inward and downward." An unexpected guest arrives? Easy, says he: "You just pull out an extra bed, assemble it, and stick it to one of the boxes." In fact, Colombo's design may not even be futuristic any more. An Italian manufacturer plans to put his mono-home into production...
Peter Townshend in performance is a tall sleek figure with jabbing thighs. He whips to his left--slips forward--darts further forward--slams his bent foot down on the stage floor to a chord on the guitar played upward with his hand at the end of a complete circle of his whole arm. He retains complete control of his music though and never seems to miss guitar cues...