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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mario Puzo is indeed "The Godfather of the Paperback Boom" [Aug. 28]. Who else but the expert novelist could write so much yet so little about something he's never personally experienced? If I could do as much, I too would be a millionaire. Hats...
Forest Hills-abandoned in favor of bigger gates at the new 25,500-seat facility -is the most prominent casualty of the tennis boom. In the ten years since shamateurism gave way to open competition, and open compensation, under-the-table payments have been replaced by out-of-this-world purses, and country-club courtliness has been supplanted by locker-room epithets. With $12 million at stake this year on the men's tournament circuit and another $5 million up for grabs on the women's tour, a bad call by a linesman is worth money...
...Significantly, since 1964, the number of males marrying women older than themselves has risen from 12% to 15%, and the trend is expected to continue. The crunch should come in the mid-1980s, when the men born at the tail end of Britain's postwar baby boom begin looking for brides in the smaller pool of women born during the 1960s. That prospect worries many population experts. They point out that a large surplus of males can bring increases in prostitution, homosexuality and serious crimes. In fact, most felonies are committed by young unmarried...
Perhaps the most menacing sign of loss of faith in the dollar is the wild gold rush that shoved the price of that indestructible metal to a close of $208.50 an ounce last week-up 25% so far this year. The boom has been primarily a dollar phenomenon. The price of gold in yen or marks has changed only slightly. But from Hong Kong to London, gold markets that once were the preserve of diehard fundamentalists are crawling with investors-corporate treasurers, money managers, individual speculators-eager to turn dollars into the metal that has always been a mystical symbol...
...book was The Dark Arena, published in 1955. Despite its warm critical reception, Puzo remained obscure. Recalls his old friend, Novelist George Mandel (The Wax Boom): "My vision of Mario then? He used to go to his brother's in a taxi to borrow money for his kids' shoes. My vision of Mario still is him leaving a building, putting a cigar in his mouth with one hand and holding up his other for a cab. Same vision, rich or poor...