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...raise this week. The plunging price of oil, which prompted OPEC to announce a 1.5 million barrel a day production cut, has put money in the pockets of recession-worried consumers. "It follows that there's going to be some spending effect," said Francisco Blach head of commodities research at Merrill Lynch in London...
Married. Dr. Albert Sabin, 60, developer of the oral polio vaccine; and Mrs. Jane Blach Warner, attractive Cincinnati divorcee; both for the second time (his first wife died of a drug overdose last year); in a Reform Jewish ceremony at Cincinnati's Holmes Hospital, where the bridegroom, confined to a wheelchair, was recovering from bites inflicted by his pet dachshund...
...restrictions of purdah-seclusion and heavy veiling. The liberated young ladies of Lebanon, long freed from purdah, now wear bikinis on the beaches of Beirut, dance the watusi at discothèques, and even marry Christians. "The young intelligentsia are fighting to modernize," says Dr. Régis Blachère of Paris' Institute of Islamic Studies. "They would like Islam to be an ethic without the limitations of practices in contradiction to modern life...
Meanwhile the radio, helped out by the pooled reporters of the morning Age-Herald, the evening News and Post, did its best to keep people informed. Station WAPI set up an I.N.S. news ticker in a window of Blach's department store, divided two windows into sections marked Local News, State News, National News, War News, Markets, Sports, Weather, Demobilization, etc. The crowds that gathered to read the latest stories as they were pasted up, all but blocked traffic past the store...
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