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...boost it to combat recession, a step most of the other countries took some time ago. The agreement to coordinate policy allowed Giscard to tell President Ford in Martinique that the Market shared the same broad views on the economic crisis. Only on energy did the meeting bog down. Not knowing what to do about high oil prices, the Nine simply ignored them. On defense policies the Nine are at greater odds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMON MARKET: Summit: Something for Everybody | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

...even a catchy enough piece in its own right. But the narration, rarely leaving the level of "And now, here's the Big Bass Drum," was clearly written for children and is a pointless text for this audience. Even Professor John Finley's gracious reading couldn't help but bog down the action and make us feel that it was getting past our bedtime...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: Murky Midnights | 12/18/1974 | See Source »

...sucked up by the crowd. Before the driver can climb out the windows are bashed in. Out of the crowd arch Molotov cocktails, their path flickered across 8,000 forms, the fire mirrored on their foreheads. Lurching into the warm at top speed comes a bog car to the tune of I'm the King of Rock and Roll. It runs head on into the bus. The night sky is consumed by a rising pillar of fire, weaving its eerie, smoke-obscured path across the entire breadth of the countryside. There is no end to the burning. I drift...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: A Watkins Glen Journal | 12/6/1974 | See Source »

...appears around the curve with his right arm cocked in the air. He has won and the crowd breaks out in cheering he cannot hear. Immediately we head out for the car. It is 5:00. We have neither the time nor the inclination to stop off at the bog. Its smoldering fires still darken the sky. At 2 a.m. I am on the bus from New York City to Boston, travelling down Amsterdam Avenue; a desolate, devastated area pocked with abandoned tenements. At 6:15 a.m. I am back in Cambridge...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: A Watkins Glen Journal | 12/6/1974 | See Source »

Later I read that The Watkins Glen Corporation has announced plans to fill in the bog with gravel...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: A Watkins Glen Journal | 12/6/1974 | See Source »

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