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...Motors, the industry price setter, had petitioned for only a 3% increase, Chrysler chiefs decided that they could really make do with the same and retreated to 3%. G.M., which based its bid on increased costs and new pollution-control and safety equipment on 1972 models, at least scaled clown its original ambitions. Shortly before the price freeze, the company planned increases of 3.9% for 1972. The .9% difference will save the average car buyer about $30, and that is a victory for the Price Commission...
This astringent strangeness allows Rogin to clown outrageously without losing control. Singer's parents invade his bedchamber one Sunday morning. His wife finds the conversation unproductive and resettles herself under the bed. The conversation continues, and then Singer gets out of bed and joins his wife. Zooey Glass and his mother come to mind. The slapstick works as well for Rogin as it did for Salinger...
...Oswald walked clown the "DMZ" to confront a prisoner delegation led by Clark. Brother Richard said he wanted more time; again he demanded "complete, total, unadulterated amnesty" and the removal of "that guy Mancusi." At 9:05 a.m., a convict shouted down the corridor through a mega phone that all hostages would be killed if state troopers tried to storm the compound. Replied Oswald's chief assistant, Walter Dunbar: "Release the prisoners now. Then the commissioner will meet with you." The fatal one-word reply was "Negative...
...ranks? According to an Army study, there may well exist such a profound crisis of discipline that the Army's ability to function is in doubt. So says an unusually revealing Army memorandum surveying military discipline in the entire Pacific Command that is currently being circulated clown to the battalion level...
...name is Adam Stein, and he is a kind of W.C. Fields of the Jews. Once he was Europe's greatest clown, and more than that, a clairvoyant who could tell the history of anybody in the audience from a piece of cloth held in his hand, read whole books through their covers, and even, just by looking into a man's eyes, tell that he had quarreled with his wife the night before. Chatting about a movie, he would automatically register that the hero spoke 4,266 words of dialogue (v. the heroine...