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...exporting nations contend that they need a big price boost because Western inflation and the decline in the dollar have eaten away the purchasing power of the greenbacks that they receive by selling oil. In France, for example, the purchasing power of their dollars has dropped roughly 30% in the past nine months-about 10% because of French price increases, 20% because of a decline in the value of the dollar against the franc. This argument, of course, overlooks two screamingly obvious facts: a quintupling of oil prices since October 1973 has left the OPEC nations far ahead...
...like guideposts to ghost towns as the 1958 General Motors coach grinds west. Its odometer creaks past 620,000 miles. The Spartanburg Phillies of the Western Carolinas League-25 eager minor league baseball players-are heading home after losing a night game to the Charleston Pirates. They have not eaten since they left Spartanburg nearly twelve hours ago for the outbound leg of the 420-mile, one-day road trip. Pitcher Jerry Houston and Infielder Raul Nieves are asleep, crammed into the overhead luggage racks. Centerfielder Lonnie Smith has his radio pressed against the window, searching through the static...
...capital out of the country. To that end, the state-set price of gasoline was raised to $1.82 per gal. (from $1.14 in 1973), cutting consumption by 9%. New taxes pumped up beef prices 24%, to $3 per lb., but the desired end was achieved; the amount of meat eaten by Italians dropped 35%. By early this year, total imports had fallen 13.8% below a year earlier, while exports rose 29.2%-helped by a 20% devaluation of the lira, which is now holding steady at roughly 625 to the dollar. A fierce tightening of credit that sent bank prime rates...
With the expansion of leagues in virtually any sport you can think of, the opportunity for Crimson seniors is improving with the addition of every new team to the pro market. Next year is also an Olympic year so any sport which hasn't yet been eaten up by the "let's start a new league" machine is still open to participation by Harvard and Radcliffe's top senior athletes...
...snapshots, yet his images are carefully selected. He focuses on the unguarded reactions of people to their environment more than Russell or Purcell, and many of his best shots are of visitors to a carnival. Children wander aimlessly over an asphalt globe littered with popsicle wrappers and half-eaten ice cream cones; a young girl's dark, wild-eyed apprehensive face is juxtaposed with the blurred bodies of other children being whirled through space by the long arms of a giant swing...