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Early Wounds. On the other hand, if he had been less wounded himself before he found his true comic voice, if he had not found doom so attractive, he could have survived assaults from the law at its lowest, least sensitive levels...
...guitar lessons with Jose Feliciano ($14,500), an ivory day with Peter Duchin at the piano ($3,750), drumming with Buddy Rich ($5,250) and two "Lessons in Conversation" with Truman Capote, lisped at $3,000. There is also a one-day grounding in economics with doom-crying Economic Forecaster Eliot Janeway, whose price ($2,875) would suggest emigration rather than investment...
...expanding astronomical research began to dry up. That left some 800 graduate students working on doctorates in astronomy with little hope of future employment; there are fewer than 50 astronomy job-openings per year in the U.S. "The handwriting was on the wall, and there was considerable gloom and doom among young astronomers," recalls Craig Chester, 32. "We decided that it's better to hang together than hang separately...
...some battles: he successfully resisted pressure for quick decontrol of domestic oil prices. But in September he testified to a Senate subcommittee that the U.S. had no short-term policy for reversing the rise in world oil prices; the remark angered Henry Kissinger. Last month Sawhill sealed his doom. Disobeying White House orders to keep quiet, he went on television to explain his proposal for a 10?-to 30?-per-gal. federal tax on gasoline after the Administration had rejected the idea. Morton said last week that Sawhill was being removed for lack of "executive compatibility." Ford asserted that Sawhill...
Though he had more or less pooh-poohed Edward Heath's prophecies of economic doom during the election campaign, Prime Minister Harold Wilson managed to sound almost like an echo of his defeated Conservative opponent last week. Wilson told Britons that they "cannot look forward over the next two years or more to any general increase in living standards." He had derided Heath's call for a government of national unity to fight recession and inflation, but now after his fourth national victory, Wilson repeated Heath's appeal for national solidarity in Britain's "gravest crisis...