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...guarantee against a reversal of the reversal that would send prices up again. But most economists think that the recent drop is no fluke. Thus, the downturn should allay widespread fears that the roaring commodity-price spiral of the past two years was a symptom of a global inflationary fever that might never break...
...decided underdog when he entered the race, Hammond stumped the state with State Senator Lowell Thomas Jr., 51, son of the radio commentator, who won the G.O.P. nomination for Lieutenant Governor. At a time when Alaska is in the throes of pipeline fever, their winning platform surprisingly calls for "careful scrutiny" of the state's rapid growth and "no development for development's sake." In November, Hammond will face Governor William A. Egan, who was easily renominated in last week's Democratic primary...
...Reading Hospital for some inoculations before his trip to Zaire this month to fight George Foreman. "I hate 'em; let's get 'em over with," protested Ali in mock terror as he awaited his bout with the needle. The challenger endured his prophylaxis against smallpox, yellow fever and polio, then grumbled, "My fights don't take this long...
...Miller or Thieves Like Us) have a look of surprise, of the familiar transposed in some evasive but still palpable way. Once again he enjoys the collaboration of his excellent art director, Leon Ericksen, who has constructed an entire casino, brightly seedy and lit like a yellow-fever ward, which Altman populates with 24-hour night people. Their faces are ridden with worry, briefly flush with success. Their babble, their half-heard hopes framed in gambler's jargon, are like the running response of some lost congregation. They are Altman's chorus...
Between the time Spiro Agnew became a household word and the moment he passed into the garage sale of history, many of America's intellectuals feared a recurrence of McCarthy fever. But with the notable exception of Daniel Ellsberg, the Administration was not out to get those who, in the early cold war, were derisively called eggheads. The Vice President's bark was reserved for TV, newspaper and magazine journalists, a motley lot whom intellectuals sometimes refer to as middlebrows...