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...size and speed of a switch in the overall U.S. balance of payments, which went into the red by a record $5.8 billion in the second quarter. The Nixon Administration calculates that under present conditions and without the surcharge the American deficit, just in trade with other nations, would balloon to a $5 billion annual rate by 1972 as the U.S. economy moves back toward full employment and sucks in more imports. Instead, the U.S. wants to achieve a trade surplus of $8 billion; the difference between that and a $5 billion deficit produces Connally's figure...
...pointless to worry about whether Suez is a shapely and coherent play. It isn't. Useless characters clutter the stage, scenes balloon or shrink out of proportion, and at the final curtain the plot snaps shut arbitrarily as native soldiers run onstage shooting. Osborne's anger still glints and cuts, but it cannot draw blood from such straw men as critics, in-laws and American tourists...
...patch booster, the pump is an improved model of the device developed in 1966 by Kantrowitz and his brother Arthur, a physicist. Made of silicone rubber and Dacron, the booster is deceptively simple in construction. Six inches long and shaped like a cigar, it consists of two tubes, a balloon-like outer bladder surrounding a narrow tube, with an air hose that leads from the outer tube to a helium-powered driving unit and compressed air tank outside the body...
...league's most dangerous power hitter has caused other Pirates to stop calling their amiable 6-ft. 21-in. cleanup batter "Gentle Ben." Now, in mock reference to the tiny TV-cartoon cereal pitchman, he is known as "Sugar Bear." Fact is, during past winter hibernations, Stargell would balloon up to 245 lbs. and then have to spend spring training "exercising instead of batting." This winter he combined a strict diet with four-mile hikes through the Penn Hills section of Pittsburgh, where he lives. As a result, he is down to a hard 215 lbs., compared with...
...take a chance with my daggers?' Those knives really thumped around. Richard suddenly jumped over the barrier into the ring. I shouted to him to stop. I don't know what he thought he could do." What he could do was get into the act -with a balloon in his mouth and another in his hand for the man to burst. "That knife thrower must have got a lot of publicity," said Richard. He wasn't the only...