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They range from Old Curiosity Shops to assembly line emporiums. On State Street in Bangor, Me., Clarence Ellis has spent almost half of his 50 years fiddling with unruly appliances. He can fix anything but has little cess with newfangled mechanisms. When he needs an appliance for his own use, he scours the town dump for an old, dependable, repairable machine. "You're better off," he says, "with a good rebuilt vacuum cleaner than a new cheap one." Since it is hard to get parts for an appliance that is more than ten years old, Boston's Lavezzo...
...most top officials honest, below them, says a Tanzanian, "corruption has become institutionalized." Explains a resident of Dar es Salaam: "You can't get anything done without paying - whether a permit for a plot of land or an import license. I even have to bribe to get my cess pool emptied...
Certainly there can be no argument with the President's admonition to conserve food and fuel. Some of his other preachments about hoarding bucks, however, were enough to give even Franklinesque economists pause. Slug gish consumer buying, rather than ex cess demand, is one element of the cur rent stagflation. Economizing when demand is weak and saving when savings are already high are two Ford prescriptions that if taken too literally could result in deepening the recession with out necessarily curbing inflation...
...three months, the NATO and Warsaw Pact countries have been conducting mutual force reductions talks in Vienna, and the Administration regards keeping American sol diers in Europe as a bargaining chip that will force Soviet concessions. Says Schlesinger: "It would be foolhardy indeed not to give this pro cess a chance to work itself out." So far, however, there has been no visible progress at the talks. The chief diffi culty seems to be finding a way to compensate for the fact that the U.S. would have to withdraw troops across the Atlantic, the Russians only to then-borders near...
...world of objects, returning to the eye and hand a space which, though fictional, can be explored in real detail. "There is in na ture," he said later, "a tactile, I almost mean 'manual' space." The Mantel piece, 1922, is an example of this pro cess. At first one recognizes its elements - the crumpled guitar, the bottle, the grapes, the brown veined marble of the consoles and mantel top - as signs that "stand for" real things. But the painting, as always in Braque, is full of direct physical insistences: the weight and precarious balance of the clutter...