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...days millions of people will clink glasses and kiss each other at midnight to celebrate the advent of a new half century. Millions of others will sneer and say that they should have celebrated this momentus event a year...
These groups then sell their blocks to friends at slightly higher prices. This serves the double purpose of raising money and having a social outing at the same time. It is for this reason that there is always a low murmur and clink of glasses during a concert, although Tuesday's was a little restrained...
...hero (John Berry) is a lower-middle-class youth with a small mind and big ideas. He winds up in the clink, partly the victim of the world he inhabits, partly the victim of his own shoddy desires, chiefly the victim of Playwright Manoffs cluttered, cheapjack dramaturgy...
...nation's jeans jingled cheerily last year with a near-record $209.8 billion in personal income-just a clink and tinkle below the alltime high of $211.9 billion in 1948. Landlords, merchants, and other unincorporated businessmen made 9.5% less than they had the year before. But pay envelopes ($133.5 billion), dividends and interest payments were even higher. Only the farmers had cause to wonder if there were holes in their pockets: the nation's agricultural income of $18.4 billion was down 20% from 1948's $23.1 billion...
...prisoners took to Dr. Guanche's model clink. Many of them -madams, streetwalkers and homicidal housewives-set up a hullabaloo the minute they moved in. Locked up nightly in their blue-green-tinted rooms, they howled last week for the earthy gabfests, the feuds and hairpullings of the old bullpens. "I'll take Guanabacoa any time," rasped an ex-dope peddler. "Prison is prison," yelled another ingrate, "and I like mine with company...