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...their accelerating dismay over the state of the economy, Republicans could hardly be distinguished from Democrats, business executives from labor leaders. All were making much the same speech and the same plea to the President and Congress: do something and do it now. Testifying before the Joint Economic Committee, United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock warned of the "worst economic upheaval since the Great Depression. The auto industry is in a state of collapse." Addressing the same group, Henry Ford II agreed: "I have never before felt so uncertain and so troubled about the future of both my country...
Solzhenitsyn's description of his arrest and deportation adds some compelling new details to earlier accounts. After being charged with treason he was put in a cell with a pair of currency black-marketeers. Recognizing the author, one of the criminals expressed his dismay that Solzhenitsyn had not gone to Stockholm to collect his 70,000-ruble ($78,000) Nobel Prize in 1970. "You could have bought so many automobiles with that money!" Touched by the man's naive pity, Solzhenitsyn felt his first twinge of regret at having decided not to go to Sweden. Believing that...
...must, she brings with her a beautiful art student named Keiko. It is clear that Otoko still has deep feelings for Toshio. It is also clear that she and Keiko share a lesbian love. And before long it is obvious that Keiko has come to like very much the dismay she causes when she is capriciously cruel. She sets out, giggling, to seduce Toshio and to ruin his son. What is unsatisfactory about this is not that it rings false, but that it does not ring...
...Enders, an Assistant Secretary of State, launched the idea in a speech at Yale before it had been discussed with other policymakers. Treasury Secretary William Simon said the speech surprised not only him but also "many people in the State Department." Representative Henry Reuss, Democrat of Wisconsin, observed in dismay: "I just wonder what it shall profit the American consumer of oil if he is freed from the tyranny of the OPEC only to be ripped off by the U.S. oil companies...
...Editorial Page Editor Joe H. Stroud that Damman be dumped. The Republicans countered by sending their lawyers to meet with Free Press editors and the two reporters, who, says Tyson, were told by the newspaper's counsel not to engage in debate. The result, to Tyson's dismay, was a Free Press editorial reversal, again written by Stroud, 48 hours before the election, stating that the paper did not have enough facts to support the charges. Angered, the city news staff hit back with a post-election story carefully substantiating the original article on Damman, now Lieutenant Governor...