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...very uneven quality. A very funny bit about "historical impersonations" featuring Graham Hill impersonating St. John the Baptist--the moustachioed, goggle-girded head of the racing car driver speeding across stage on top of a silver platter with Indy 500 noises on the soundtrack--can be followed by dismal material about a football team explaining "Why We Love the Yangtze...
Harvard's hardcourt heroes, sporting a dismal 4-9 record (1-2 in the Ivies), hope to repeat last year's post-exam performance in which the squad came back to play 7-3 ball in the second half of the season...
Besides these Nation stories, other sections survey various aspects of our economic malaise. Economy & Business reports on the sputtering auto industry; Behavior examines some secret desires to see recession slide into depression; while Press offers a critique of journalism's performance in reporting the "dismal science," economics...
Since events pushed inflation and recession to Page One and the top of TV news programs, it has become painfully apparent that American journalism, by and large, provides dismal coverage of the Dismal Science. Lyle Harris, director of the business-journalism program at the University of Missouri, sees business reporting as "a great wasteland. The public doesn't understand the stories, and the reporters don't either." To Louis Rukeyser, moderator of Public Broadcasting's excellent Wall Street Week, economics is the "No. 1 failing of journalism...
...meantime, the nation's fourth automaker, American Motors Corp., is making an even bolder play to increase showroom traffic. Despite the dismal sales climate, A.M.C. is bringing out a brand-new car. Called the Pacer, the new entry is a two-door subcompact aimed primarily at the urban market...