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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover
The trademarks of major oil companies break up and dissolve. Are the companies themselves to be broken up? Page 15.
Illustration by Mick Haggerty
6 Sunday Observer
Pro football—and con
By Russell Baker
15 Breaking up Big Oil
Not long ago, divestiture (dismemberment?) seemed farfetched, indeed. Now, the industry is anxiously spending millions to prevent it.
By Robert Sherrill
16 Spain opens up
Moving uneasily toward democracy, the country is trying to get over its past. “Franco is not just dead,” remarks one Spaniard. “He has disappeared.”
By David Holden
18 The second first Carey administration
New York’s Governor had to spend the first half of his term ministering to the cities. Now the challenge is to run the state, not with “less more,” but with “less less.”
By Steven R. Weisman
20 Salmon ranches and lobster farms
In a nation of seafood snobs, the budding aquaculture industry attracts venture capital and promises big profits. But that doesn’t feed the world’s hungry.
By Elisabeth Keiffer
36 Letters
On the C.I.A., pyramids, visitors, remedies, genes and suits.
40 MH² recycles our garbage
No longer merely a spoof of soap opera, “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” begins its second year already enshrined as a cultural signpost.
By Ted Morgan
66 Fashion
International style
By Anne-Marie Schiro
68 Design
Grand hotel
By Ada Louise Huxtable
76 Food
Pumpkin chicken
By Craig Claiborne
with Pierre Franey
96 Puzzles
Last week’s answers, Page 98
103 Endpaper
The Sect of the Thirty
By Jorge Luis Borges
Picture credits, Page 87