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...STEADY PRICES. For the first time in 20 years, U.S. business experienced the delights of expansion unaccompanied by inflation. Though the industrial production index reached a new high at year's end, the cost-of-living index crept up less than 1% during the year, and wholesale prices actually fell...
Facing up to the publicity, John manfully discussed the U.N. with Under Secretary Andrew W. Cordier, got a private tour of the executive offices, finally crept back to Manhasset High. When the school told her about her son's "fantastic excuse" for cutting classes, John's mother called it "absolutely hilarious." But, she added sternly, no more going on the hook for John...
...class was at 8 in the morning, and I discovered that nobody in the department was around that early. I said. 'Why are you policing yourself with this dead-brain text?' I replaced it with the straight Duskin line." But, dumped for having no doctorate. Duskin crept back to Stanford to earn one. He never made it: "You should walk around Stanford some time-it's a tough scene. All these beautiful people with nothing faces. So I quit and came down here to start a college...
...guarantee law enforcement, and then they twist your words because the marshals are on the way anyway. That Bobby Kennedy is just treacherous, that's what he is. I don't trust him and he don't trust me." A hurt tone crept into Patterson's voice. "To say that I couldn't enforce the law is the worst insult they could have thrown at me. The Kennedys couldn't get enough votes in Alabama this morning to wad buckshot...
...apartment house, looked out and saw his janitor leading a squad of G-2 men into the building. Mallin ran up a flight of stairs and hid in a hallway storage bin. The G-2 men waited in the apartment; Mallin waited in the bin. At 5 a.m. Mallin crept down the stairs, shoes in hand, and made it past his apartment to the street. He rode a city bus downtown, found a Jamaican cabby he knew who drove him to the former U.S. embassy residence, now occupied by the Swiss. Bluffing his way past Castro's militia guards...