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...children who had been adopted and 15,563 legitimate children. Although all three groups were from the same social and economic strata, by the age of seven the illegitimate children who had remained with their mothers were already at a distinct disadvantage. The mothers had begun to move socially downward, and the children's behavior and school work were deteriorating...
...stumbled into a de facto system of "floating" exchange rates in which the dollar price of the German mark, French franc, Japanese yen and British pound is set by supply and demand-and it has proved stable enough. Second, as a result of two formal dollar devaluations, a further downward float, and ravenous worldwide demand for the farm products that the U.S. grows, America is no longer spilling out dollars abroad at an alarming rate...
...engineer a cost-of-credit squeeze of historic proportions; last week some banks raised their prime lending rate for businessmen to 10%, higher than it has ever soared in the U.S. Thus the chairman of the Federal Reserve, who is known to believe that interest rates could notch downward if some of the nation's excess spending power was absorbed by higher taxes, may have been trying to force Nixon's hand...
...heading. And airline executives can firm up their forecasts for the year when they see the traffic figures for May-the month the first big wave of vacationers hits the ticket counters. Having just received last May's figures, some airmen have revised their forecasts for 1973 slightly downward. Though volume continued to climb, for many lines the latest gain was smaller than in May 1972. Following are the total May traffic figures for all eleven U.S. trunk lines and the six biggest lines, comparing this year's gains with last year...
...RESTRICTED by social pressure, the "savage journey" accelerates downward, focussing Duke's attentions on a degraded physical level. Eating, drinking, and fouling like the rest, he somehow manages to retain a shred of self-respect. It alienates him from them, and causes repulsive hallucinations of lizards, moray eels, and huge reptiles standing in blood-soaked carpets sipping cocktails. The drive for success/money/power has created a world where an "eat the wounded" shark ethic prevails, but Thompson believes its apocalypse is imminent. He watches people burn themselves out in struggles for self-preservation, escaping "meat-hook reality" through dope, booze...