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After hitting a first period peak, the Harvard hockey roller coaster swerved, dipped, plunged and finally lurched to a halt as the erratic icemen dropped a 6-2 decision to Boston College at the Bright Center last night...
...Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a veteran trader emerged from a day of trying to cope with roller-coaster price changes in the pit where live cattle are traded to exclaim, "I've never experienced anything like this in my life!" In Florida, where the action this year in condominiums has been hotter than the summer sun, mortgage bankers felt a sudden chill. Said Charles Stuzin, head of a Miami savings and loan association: "People are asking, 'What's going to happen tomorrow?' Everything has moved so quickly, no one can make any plans...
...classic clown tradition, Brooks claims that none of this has brought happiness-and he may very well be right. "Jim is a roller coaster," says Daniels. "He's up. He's down. You try to hang on and you see he's going in another direction." Like the Burt Reynolds character in Starting Over, the bearded Brooks, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Lytton Strachey, apparently had a slow recovery from divorce. "I would go out on a date," he says, "and have difficulty breathing." But he finally had a soft landing into a second marriage, with...
Republican Alan Greenspan, perhaps the most optimistic member of TIME's board, sees a roller-coaster recession: the economy, after its slight rise, will plunge steeply during the coming winter and spring. Unemployment, which has hovered at about 5.7% for the past year, inched up to 6.0% in August, and a majority of TIME'S board predict that it will reach 8% by next summer, meaning some 8 million Americans will be out of work. That is severe, of course, but not as bad as during the 1974-75 recession, when the jobless rate...
...survivor. He had lived through the Stalin period, the Molotov era at the Foreign Ministry, and Khrushchev's roller coaster diplomacy. He had been Foreign Minister since...