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Until now, about the closest contact many journalists have had with the recession was reporting what it did to other Americans. That vicarious experience is acquiring an edge of reality. Rising costs and shrinking revenues have begun to alter employment, format and, to a lesser extent, the quality of coverage at the nation's newspapers, magazines and broadcast stations...
...have to be aware that the Middle East oil price increases lower our standard of living, and there is nothing that President Ford or anyone else in this country can do to alter that fact. Even military intervention, unthinkable for other reasons, would have to be financed through higher taxes or deficit spending (read: inflation...
...woman who had made it on brains in the sexist hierarchy of Hugh Hefner's Playboy empire. From a receptionist's job, which she took in 1960 shortly after leaving high school, she rose to become Hefner's executive secretary for eleven years. As his alter ego and chief of staff, she saw to a diverse range of the head Playboy's needs, from matters of substance and budget right down to scheduling his private jet and arranging overtime for the butlers in the baronial 100-room Playboy mansion on Chicago's Gold Coast...
...into ashes and let them scatter about in modernist prose, hoping that something new and different will happen. In Box Man every conceivable "new" technique is used--from describing the color of ink used in the marginalia, printed verbatim, to a fight between the box man and his fictitious alter-ego about who is the real narrator of the story...
...strange domain. In a territory as large as the U.S. east of the Mississippi, huge patches still remain generally unreachable and desolate. Most of the population of 5.7 million is clustered in towns (the largest: Jeddah, pop. 400,000) or oases. The oil boom is Likely to alter the desert kingdom totally, as the Bedouins give up their no madic existence for a better life...