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...spending has sent a huge amount of vagabond greenbacks roaming round the world; nobody is certain of the total, but estimates range from $60 billion to $80 billion. An excess of dollars, like an excess of bacon, drives down the price. The more so in this case as many of the people who hold the dollars have lost faith in their value. The dollar holders note that a long series of U.S. moves-taxes on purchases of foreign securities, for example, and controls on bank lending abroad-have failed to put America's international payments back into balance...
...primary medium used by the movement, the demonstration itself is a phenomenon worthy of investigation. Marching in a rally has a symbolic significance which marks dissent, but does not entail an excess of commitment. One gains a sense of solidarity and unified power while protesting among ranks of thousands of other protestors. It is dissidence, but a safe dissidence...
There was no excess of cholesterol or other fatty substances in the blood. "We tried to keep him on a low-intake diet," Burkley says, "but he wasn't starved on any strict regimen as a true cardiac patient would be, because he was a normal individual during those years." He got some exercise-swimming, walking, an occasional gym workout-and he usually took an afternoon nap. His blood pressure was normal...
Nixon is so absorbed by this combative mood, and feels so pridefully at home in it, that he carried the athletic metaphor to excess. "You can't be relaxed," he said. "The Redskins were relaxed in their last game of the regular season, and they were flat, and they got clobbered. You must be up for the great events. Up but not uptight. Having done it so often, I perhaps have a finer-honed sense of this. But you can overdo it, overtrain and leave your fight in the dressing room...
...first TV appearance this Saturday, Marlene Dietrich has been paid more, minute for minute, than any other star in television history, something in excess of $250,000. If she had been Cleopatra emerging from a 90-oar barge in the pollution of the Hudson, with 100 eunuchs throwing rose petals in her path, the executives at CBS would not have offered more-or been more excited at meeting her. Still, Dietrich is not happy. Not happy...