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...announcements sent investment bankers to their calculators to take a fresh look at just how much longer it will be before Britain's seemingly bottomless trade deficit-already $2.1 billion for the first nine months of this year -is wiped out by North Sea oil. Some analysts have already concluded that the government's target date of self-sufficiency in oil by 1980 should be moved ahead. The oil is expected to shave more than $1.75 billion off the trade deficit next year, more than $4 billion in 1978 and $9 billion...
Rebecca, the story of a shy innocent who marries a millionaire only to have everyone compare her damningly with his first, drowned wife, could have turned cruel and vindictive. But Hitchcock works out of a bottomless pit of sinister imagination, and instead of making us feel sorry for the poor put-upon Joan Fontaine, he has us half-believing that she might have this coming to her. Only Hitchcock can make you want to rescue a protagonist and stab her at the same time, and the ambivalence chills. A neat double suspence turn-around caps off the film...
When that might happen is anybody's guess. A mild monarchy under the rule of the figurehead King Bhumibol Andulydej, Thailand is less notable for its democratic tradition than for its periodic military putsches and bottomless corruption. Yet at the height of the Viet Nam War, the U.S. shipped squadrons of bombers and some 50,000 troops to this California-size land, making it a fortress of American power. As the war in neighboring Indochina began to wind down, riotous Bangkok students overthrew Dictator Thanom Kit-tikachorn in 1973 and ushered in a neutralist government that requested U.S. withdrawal...
...south coast, there is little movement or noise on the dirt streets under a baking midday sun. The sugar season has just begun, so the men lucky enough to have jobs are swinging machetes in the canefields or working in the Aguirre sugar mill. Toddlers amble about shoeless and bottomless, a black hog wanders out of an alley to confront a tethered goat, and idle teen-age boys chat quietly in small groups. Most of the tiny houses are made of scrap metal and salvage lumber. People have two dreams: to own a concrete house...
Kinsley, a Rhodes scholar and a former Crimson editor, said writing the book, which took him four years and numerous revisions, had been a 'bottomless...