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Doing battle with the recession that now grips the nation could doom the fight against inflation. A gasoline tax could limit driving and cut demand for costly imported oil, but raising the tax would boost retail prices and make inflation even worse...
...population growth cannot continue infinitely on a finite planet. But it also predicted that-unless growth was stopped -most of the human race would suffocate in pollution or starve soon after the turn of the century. This forecast stirred international controversy and made the club synonymous with gloom and doom. Then, when critics found glaring faults with the assumptions made by Limits as well as a crucial mathematical error in the computer model on which the predictions were based (TIME, Oct. 15, 1973) the Club of Rome retreated into silence. But not for long...
...Conformist and Chinatown. But Resnais undercuts all his images of antique chic (among which may be counted Anny Duperey as Stavisky's wife) with symbols of death: orchids, cemeteries, the funeral pyramid in the Pare Monceau. Resnais and his screenwriter, Jorge Semprun (Z), present their Stavisky as a doom-haunted manic-depressive and try to groom him into a symbol for all of prewar France. There is a subplot involving Trotsky, who had sought asylum in France during that time, and Resnais obviously hoped to suggest that the swindler and the Communist here represent in effect the two political...
...hopes were high when Rafto finished,"McCurdy said, "but I had been out on the course and suspected what was coming." What came was three more Huskies, Howie Scribner, Ken Graham and Dan Paul. "Those three sealed our doom," McCurdy lamented...
...street, a man confronted by a bottle-laden table who declares, "One more won't hurt," and another man's gruff refusal to sign a petition to fight pollution. After the map is burned totally black, a wind begins to scatter the ashes and a deep, doom-ridden voice warns: "Great civilizations decay from within. But it's up to you. Will history repeat itself?" This apocalyptic message is not the handiwork of aging cynics gone sour on the American dream but of six Naperville, Ill., teenagers. Invited by A. Eicoff & Co., a Chicago advertising agency...