The New York Times Magazine November 2, 1975 Britain North Sea Oil Rig VG


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover
No, it’s not a futuristic housing project. Condeep (for Concrete Deep Water Structure), a breed of offshore oil drilling platform, of Norwegian make, that the British are using. Page 13.

9 Sunday Observer
Shots and long shots
By Russell Baker

13 Britain drills—and prays
The oil men in the North Sea are working against formidable odds—of weather, technology, finances, even politics—in the race to save Britain from economic and social upheaval.
By Daniel Yergin

14 As Picasso said, why assume that to look is to see?
A talk between Malraux and the master
By André Malraux

16 Keep open Admissions open
For five years, the City University has offered an education to all high-school graduates. How have they done? Has quality education suffered? Questions may become pointless if the financial crunch worsens.
By Michael Harrington

18 Can woman be liberated and married?
It helps to have a father who understands a girl’s passion for baseball and a husband who is not threatened by his wife’s job or a dish towel.
By Caryl Rivers

36 The high price of treasure
In the 17th century, the Spaniards spent blood trying to find the Atocha, laden with gold and silver, off the Florida Keys. Now an American salvage team has spent blood—and found the galleon’s remains. But the bulk of the treasure?
By Robert Daley

66 Fashion
Lesser boots

68 Design
The Shaker way
By June Sprigg

70 Food
Surprise, à l’anglaise
By Craig Claiborne with Pierre Franey

85 Puzzles
Last week’s answers, Page 102

90 Letters
On the joys and agonies of parenthood and adolescence.

103 Endpaper
Sherlock Holmes’s shortest case
By John H. Watson, M.D.
As edited by Nicholas Meyer

Picture credits, Page 94

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