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...everything and lacked either the resources or the sophistication to invest in property or paper with a rising value to offset price increases. Clearly, one of Richard Nixon's first priorities must be to slow the inflation without starting a recession, whose first victims would also be Amer ica's poor. Economist Arthur Burns, one of Nixon's most influential advisers, warns: "If inflation continues, an economic bust may become unavoidable...
...former assistant professor at Yale, he is the son of Robert S. and Helen M. Lynd, authors of Middletown and Middletown in Transition, both classic sociological studies of a small city in the 1920s and 1930s. Staughton, now 38, is best known as editor of the book Nonviolence in Amer ica and as a confirmed peace marcher and self-appointed citizen-envoy to North Viet Nam. He seems to be acting out his own role in a contemporary sequel to his parents' books that might be called Middletown in Revolt...
Hardly more logical was the Amer ican League's decision to split in two. "Nobody," explained one club owner, "wants to finish twelfth in a twelve-team league." But the way the divisions are set up, two clubs could wind up hurting in first. The Minnesota Twins and Chicago White Sox are assigned to the league's western division, along with two expansion teams - in Kansas City and Seattle - and the lackluster Oakland Athletics and California Angels. They will play 21 fewer home games against the more attractive easte:rn teams - Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, New York...
...Governor becomes as steely as his armor. Delivering a flaming polemic against the King, he sunders his own flagstaff and tromps the red-crossed flag of England underfoot. It is the most powerful moment of the evening and brings to vivid life D. H. Lawrence's comment that Amer ica was born in "black revulsion." Black with wrath, Endecott orders Merry Mount burned to the ground and the Indians massacred. The historical moment is a century and a half before the American Revolution, but as the first shots are fired, and puffs of acrid smoke drift across the stage...
...Civic Repertory Theater. Within four years, he was on Broadway as the Player King to Leslie Howard's Hamlet, and had developed so Shakespearean an intonation that he bombed his first radio auditions. So, he says, "I dirtied it up a little bit and made it sound Amer ican." Soon he was dovetailing up to five soap-opera parts...