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...sunny but seedy East Hollywood almost totally negated the latest increase in his $230-a-month Social Security check. Climbing costs have purged cottage cheese from his meatless diet (he suffers from a cardiovascular disorder and subsists on nuts, grains, fruits and beans). Despite Medicare, Seidman has had to dip into his savings to cover medical bills. He recently paid $700 for dental work and $140 for a pair of special orthopedic shoes, and fears that he will have to make another withdrawal to cover some of the cost of an operation later this year. "I'm mad about...
...average of $480 or 9.5%, nearly duplicating in a single stroke the $500 in price hikes that automakers posted in five stages on their 1974 models. Indeed of 15 major commodity groups included in the wholesale price index, only one, lumber and wood products, declined, and that dip was not reassuring; it reflected the sharp drop in housing construction. All told, the wholesale price index in July was 20.4% higher than in the same month last year...
Under Jenkin's leadership Harvard had its best Ivy record in three years (9-5), although its overall record of 11-13 was the first dip below .500 ball in four years...
...extraneous or forced-it arises out of the material. Instead of a shock show of the contorted and bizarre, the film glides with the constant expectation of something more subtly strange, the ever-present possibility that some grazing sleight of hand will tamper with reality just enough to dip the action into a world of dreams. When Tristana climbs the bell-tower, with the deaf boy behind and looking up her skirt, she comes upon the bloodied, severed head of the gentleman, swinging crazily from the church bell. And the vision delicately propels--we go on, as viewers never picked...
Meantime, ridership on mass transit is dropping. After weeks of increased patronage, revenues have begun to dip on Boston's rail and bus systems. In San Francisco, a 5% decline in transit customers has been matched by an increase in auto traffic on the Bay and Golden Gate bridges. The same pattern holds for the Metro in Washington, B.C., where the number of bus riders is steadily dwindling from a peak of 2.6 million passengers a week at the height of the energy shortage in March. Another gas-saving alternative-car pooling-has caught on only in Washington...