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...President Gerald Ford ordered an immediate study by federal officials to try to prevent such tragedies from happening again (see box). There was immediate speculation that some terrorist group must be involved, and that what has come to seem a worldwide epidemic of political terrorism had brought its contagion to America's greatest city. But in the absence of the usual boasts by the bombers, police spent the week sifting through charred debris and ended nearly as baffled as they had been at the start. Said Lieut. Kenneth...
...there are no painless cures." Not to say that some haven't tried; it's just that "those who have been treating New York's financial sickness have been prescribing larger and larger doses of the same political stimulants." It is important, he said, not to "let that contagion spread." Ford's diagnosis has New York in the grips of something big and strange and powerful, something that threatens the rest of us. His city disease is unmistakably cancer--it's alien, it grows fast, and it has to be removed rather than cured...
...world will be closely watching Spain for any sign of the "Portuguese malaise," the chaos and political turmoil that have plagued Lisbon since the overthrow of its dictatorship 18 months ago. Yet contagion seems unlikely. Thanks in part to Franco, who in the 1960s presided over the country's most rapid transformation in its history, Spain today has a much better base for a peaceful transformation to a democracy than its Iberian neighbor...
Perhaps it was because Dylan freaks so rarely get the opportunity to assemble in force that the atmosphere in the Winthrop JCR was so electric Ricks's was enthusiasm lot his subject was contagion's. He proudly described his collection of twenty legitimate albums and some sixty-odd bootlegs. Evens time Dylan sings a song differently Rick notes the change in his well-worn copy of Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan (It makes a great deal of difference, Ricks said, whether the Thin Main in the ballad is told that he should wear "earphones" or "telephones"-the issue being...
Like especially insidious strains of virus, recession and inflation are spreading their contagion into areas of American life that most people rarely think of as part of the economy: ballet, sports, even religion. All involve the exchange of money for goods and services of a sort, and so all are feeling the effects of hard times-though in widely varying patterns of immunity and susceptibility to infection. Among the stricken...