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...Rock & Roll Way of Knowledge." Flippo's article begins by tracing the author's infatuation with his employer back to his days on a U.S. Navy destroyer when he read the first issue of the magazine, which featured an interview of Donovan and a story on a dope bust of the Grateful Dead. Gushing lines of self-congratulation abound in the piece, such as "Ten years of Rolling Stone is the best history of the past ten years in America that I can think of." Or try this assertion on for size, if not downright smugness: "The growth of rock...
...stock market bust? One reason is widespread fears about next year. Businessmen and economists interviewed by TIME last week generally agreed that real G.N.P. will slow to a growth rate of about 4.3% in 1978, unemployment will remain stuck at about 7%, and inflation will increase to something over 6%. More important, almost all of them fear that the economy will run into an air pocket during the second half of next year-just about the time the impact of the new energy and Social Security taxes starts to be felt. Says Albert Cox, president of Merrill Lynch Economics: "Economic...
...material of public memory, the war in Viet Nam has been a bust...
...characters in The Ice Age become linked through their involvement in the property-development boom and bust in England during the mid-seventies. Len Wincobank, the whiz kid property developer, along with Maureen, his secretary-girl friend, have been unashamedly "raping the city centers of Britain and making millions." His freewheeling charisma pulls in Anthony Keating, the clergyman's son raised to be a cultivated and useless esthete, who revolts against his proper past by leaving his broadcasting job to become a property speculator...
...advance needed to cut unemployment would plunge the nation into still worse inflation, have kept the economy "on a tightrope." But the economists agreed to a man that business will come out of its summer slowdown-indeed, is already doing so-into a period of steady no-boom-no-bust expansion. Said Walter Heller, University of Minnesota professor: "The middle-aged recovery has gone through its mini-pause...