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...Dickey finds in the wilderness and within himself. During the run down the river, all four men nearly drown in the rapids. Lewis Medlock breaks a leg in a spill from a canoe. The mutual-fund salesman is raped in an act of sodomy by two mountain people who beset the city slickers. Gentry tumbles from a cliff with the body of a mountain man whom he shot with a bow and arrow while defending himself. The final score: two mountain folk dead (by arrow shot), one canoer dead (from ambush rifle fire), three bodies secretly and horribly buried...
When Dean Louis Pollak of the Yale Law School announced last fall that he would resign to devote more time to teaching and family, possible successors eyed the job warily. At Yale, as at nearly every other top U.S. law school, black students and militant whites have beset the faculty with demands for liberalized admission standards, more student power and more "relevant" courses. The pressures for change at Yale, as elsewhere, weigh most heavily on the dean, a man traditionally selected more for his skills as a scholar and fundraiser than as a conciliator...
...overall increase in joblessness has hit blue-collar workers in durable-goods manufacturing, the major sinew of U.S. economic abundance. In just twelve months, the durable-goods jobless rate almost doubled-from a post-Korean War low of 2.5% to 4.7% last month. The troubled auto industry, beset by a winter of declining sales and layoffs of thousands of workers, accounted for one-third of the February rise in unemployment, Government statisticians said...
...Chambers was also haunted by philosophical and political despair, beset by sickness and debt. He had qualms about contributing to the National Review at all. Missing deadline after deadline, his mind and pen ever poised to examine any key issue at Hegelian lengths, Chambers must have been difficult to fit into the everyday demands of editorship. Clearly the man and his words were worth all the trouble. It is hard not to agree with Buckley's valediction composed after Chambers' death in 1961. He speaks "to our time from the center of sorrow...
Early Retirement. At many companies, people are the most readily cuttable expense. Boeing reduced its payroll $75 million last year by eliminating 14,400 jobs; this year it expects to drop 18,000 more employees. The company, which has been beset by aerospace cutbacks and fears a falloff in airline orders, dropped 5,040 workers in January alone. Last week the Labor Department reported that total U.S. unemployment had increased sharply from an annual rate of 3.5% in December to 3.9% in January, the highest level since October 1967. By historical standards, that is still low for a time...