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...hours after John Kennedy's assassination, the enormity of the event was too much to absorb. In the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, when parts of Washington were burned and looted, people stood in a stupor on the White House lawn and saw the smoke drift over them and watched as looters broke windows two blocks away in deserted streets...
...water to UConn in the opening moments of the contest. By 500 meters Radcliffe had narrowed the UConn lead to four seats. By the finish, Radcliffe was up by three. The 'Cliffe eight finished at 3:37, but began the race well past the starters point because of the drift involved in a floating start...
...Eastwood is not as good as he seems to think he is. As an actor, he is probably better than he allows himself to be. Meanwhile, the best you can say for High Plains Drifter is that the title is a low pun. Rarely are humble westerns permitted to drift around on such a highfalutin plane. That, however, is small comfort as this cold, gory and overthought movie unfolds...
Robert Triffin, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, warned: "Experience can only make you−and me−skeptical about the willingness and ability of responsible officials to reach sensible agreements." Yet such agreements are urgently needed, he said, "to end the present drift towards unilateral, nationalistic and mutually defeating policies, bound to bring disaster to all concerned...
...economy zips into the second quarter with production, profits and employment all rising, Wall Street continues to sink deeper into its private depression. Stock prices continue to drift downward; last week the Dow Jones industrial average closed at 931, off 121 points from its high of 1052 less than three months ago. Far more frightening to brokers, there are growing indications that a sizable slice of the public has been turned off stock investments. The latest New York Stock Exchange survey shows that in 1972-the very year in which the Dow Jones average finally cracked the magic 1000 barrier...