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...wouldn't know who was important"), death ("I don't believe in it, because you're not around to know that it's happened"), and his unnerving experiences as a TV talk-show guest ("I just sit there saying I'm going to faint' "). To promote his latest creation, Warhol has offered to autograph every copy of Philosophy ordered by bookstores and wholesalers before July 25. At last count he had written some 12,000 signatures and was still going strong. Good business, after all, is the best...
More Money. Recent polls show a marked rise in consumer confidence, and because he has both new optimism and more money, the consumer is beginning to spend strongly. One consequence is that even the two sickest major industries-autos and housing-are reflecting the first faint blush of recovery. Housing starts rose 14% from April to May. Auto sales climbed 5% from the first three weeks in May to the equivalent period in June, though they usually decline during that span...
...theory that E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis, a sometime CIA informer, had participated in the assassination. As evidence, proponents have cited newsmen's photographs of three men taken into custody by Dallas police after the assassination; two of the men, identified by police as derelicts, bear a faint resemblance to Hunt and Sturgis. At the commission's request, FBI Photoanalyst Lyndal Shaneyfelt studied the photographs and determined that they were not of Hunt or Sturgis. Moreover, the panel found no evidence that either man was in Dallas that...
...national characteristic, it may be best to hope that the twin disasters of Viet Nam and Watergate will encourage Americans to think better of the dissenting man of principle, to be less easily taken in by hypocritical talk of team play. Because that kind of re-evaluation seems a faint hope, Resignation in Protest is a melancholy as well as a disturbing book...
...barrel-chested man, whose post-Republican beard lends him a faint resemblance to Fidel Castro, Hess spends most of his days in the warehouse that contains the office of Community Technology Inc., the self-help organization for which he serves as unpaid project coordinator. Surrounded by posters of Russian Anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, Mexican Peasant Leader Emiliano Zapata and Revolutionary Pamphleteer Tom Paine (all of whom he admires "because they kept on doing their own sticky things until the world changed"), Hess pursues a variety of projects that more than make up in imagination what they may lack in immediate applicability...