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Even more important for the Citizen's survival, said Publisher Kamin, is its owners' duty "to see that apathy does not creep into Lima." Said he: "We have sought to build a paper that the community can be proud of. We are here to do a good job of publishing a newspaper, not to carry on a feud...
...live at night; at night the hampsters creep away into their sawdust rooms, the rotten exhaust smell congeals and drains away down a sewer, and you can live, you can feel yourself breathe when you walk along an empty street; the world is yours because you're the only conscious being left to give it meaning; at night I become myself, the way I want to live...
...says, an "inflation psychology" will corrupt all decisionmaking. Businessmen will not fear overexpansion because higher profits will bail them out. The public will stop buying life insurance and fixed-income bonds and scramble to buy land, commodities and equities, bidding up prices. Says Balderston: "The infant ceases to creep. It learns to walk, then run and finally gallop over the brink of the precipice" and bring the bust "which everyone agrees must be avoided...
Actually, most signs last week indicated that the creep, far from increasing to a gallop, was slowing to a stop. Sales of fixed-income bond issues are booming. The commodity market, classic escape for capital in inflationary periods, is in the doldrums. Washington officials see a chance that the September consumer price index figures will show no rise over August because of the seasonal drop in used-car and food prices. Eventually they expect that inflation will begin to creep again. To keep it from accelerating to a gallop, both sides agree on the need for wise use of credit...
...There are many cases where the U.N. have failed. Hungary does creep across my mind. We cannot be content with an arrangement where our new system of international laws applies only to those who show themselves willing to keep them...