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...opposition had indicated it was willing to end the disruptive tactics that had led the Prime Minister to declare a state of emergency in the first place. But another, more important reason was that India's economy has rarely been in better shape. Food grain stocks, following two bumper crops, are at an alltime high. Foreign exchange reserves, which are now more than $2 billion, are three times what they were two years ago. Moreover, prices fell sharply soon after the emergency was declared, although they have begun to rise again lately...
...Tease. Here's Life markets Jesus the way others might introduce a new brand of soda pop to a city. I FOUND IT! tease the TV and newspaper ads, billboards, buttons, bumper stickers. Found what? The ads offer a telephone number that will provide the answer: Jesus. In Chicago, church members manned 100 telephones 15 hours a day. Said one local convert, Banker William McLaren: "I had an unbelievable feeling. I cried for six hours...
...founded a League of Non-Voters and even coauthored a book entitled None of the Above. Said Leon: "I don't vote because I don't want to force a second-class decision on my neighbors." To propagate his views, Leon has been handing out bumper stickers by the scores. One of them reads: THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS IS EVIL...
...networks spent in 1972. Much of that extra money went into elaborate new sets and gadgetry. CBS headquarters was sheathed in enough slanted Plexiglas to suggest a futuristic Dairy Queen. ABC's election-center reporters sat at semicircular desks that resembled, and were described by their occupants as, bumper cars. NBC's 336-sq.-ft. map of the country looked like a visual aid for Hollywood Squares: each state took on a hue (red for Carter, blue for Ford) as its winner was projected. All three networks abandoned the traditional mechanical tote boards for computerized video display screens...
Last year on October 22, Bill Lee announced that he was going to the Eliot Lounge to play bumper pool. This year on October 2, though almost nobody noticed, he might have done the same thing...