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...well known as theirs, but like them he can invest a plot with significance beyond its conclusion. Symons has never approached the fame of Agatha Christie, whom he succeeded in 1976 as president of Britain's Detection Club. Yet he may now be on the brink of solving the mystery of his comparative obscurity. At an age when most writers are, to put it gently, no longer productive, he is overseeing the publication of two new books on the same day. Taken together, they may prove a case to a wider array of jurors: Symons is far more than...
...world has now discovered the dangers inherent in the Federal Reserve Board's pursuit of tight-money policies. It is tragic to see 12 million Americans unemployed, thousands of U.S. companies in bankruptcy and hordes of Third World countries on the brink of default. No wonder John Maynard Keynes warned us to avoid high interest rates...
...stockyards, the recession dominates. The city has lost 160,000 jobs in the past decade, mostly in manufacturing. The steel mills that rim Lake Michigan from Chicago to Burns Harbor, Ind., are idling. Giant International Harvester, long one of the city's most robust corporations, is on the brink of bankruptcy, and the aging Wisconsin Steel plant has closed. Unemployment stands at 12.8%, with 190,967 people out of work More than 20,000 applied for 3,800 temporary jobs offered by Mayor Jane Byrne earlier this month. The state of Illinois' projected $200 million cash shortfall...
...face of shrinking demand sent shock waves out through virtually all of heavy manufacturing. International Harvester Co. of Chicago (1981 sales: $7 billion), already deeply in debt to banks across the country because it borrowed to stay afloat as sales plummeted, teetered throughout the year on the brink of outright collapse, surviving on credits from reluctant bankers and suppliers. Hardest hit of all in the downturn were the nation's producers of basic metals such as steel and copper. As demand for metals lurched lower and layoffs swelled, the once pulsing industrial belt that stretches from Illinois across...
Here is what Red Stovall has: a numerous family whose farm is turning to dust, an inexplicable Lincoln convertible, a guitar, an invitation to audition for the Grand Ole Opry and a case of tuberculosis teetering on the brink of the terminal...