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...soared to impressive adjectival heights in describing the Communist heaven awaiting those Russians who can manage to hang on for another 20 years. By 1980, he promised, the gross national product will have grown fivefold, industrial production sixfold, and total farm output 3½ times. No one would then work long hours for low pay, and every family would have its own rent-free apartment. Best of all, Nikita promised that by 1965 each Russian would have the incredible bounty of "almost three pairs of shoes per year. "Some of the 1980 "miracles" compared with current U.S. levels...
...basic to the agreements regarding Berlin"). In the past, Russian replies to such protests have sometimes been delayed for weeks. This time, the only immediate reply was indirect: the East Germans ordered all commuters to pay their rent in West rather than East German marks, which means a fivefold increase in rent...
...reason is Armour's chairman, William Wood Prince, an athletic and esthetic man of 47, who is equally at ease in a Michigan Avenue art gallery or on a stockyard's manure pile. In four years as chief executive, Billy Prince has raised Armour's earnings fivefold, to $16 million on last year's sales of $1.7 billion. This year, despite a first-quarter squeeze on profits. Prince expects to do at least as well. His formula: decentralize, modernize, diversify...
...Dean Bond's reckoning, the U.S. talent pool would increase fivefold if every child in the land had the same cultural opportunities as those in the wealthier classes. Pending this millennium, educators are tackling three key problems...
...then restores him to common humanity. On seeing Cordelia's body, the grief-stricken Lear cries: "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life and thou no breath at all?" In the extremity of human despair ("Thou'lt come no more") he utters his towering, fivefold "Never, never, never, never, never!" Then the dam of his unbearable anguish breaks with the homely request, "Pray you undo this button." No one but Shakespeare would have dared put those two lines together; no one but Shakespeare could...