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...voters lost to the left, partly because of the government's economic policies. The pattern of the municipal elections showed that the leftist opposition gained most in those regions where unemployment was high. As inflation gains once more among France's trading partners, it is bound to flare again in France. At the same time, the French trade unions, notably docile during the past two years, have been encouraged by the leftist electoral successes. They have announced a major onslaught on the government to win another 15% wage increase this year...
Technically, it was a demanding project. Amid the confusion, Hine accosted his subjects, lined them up, got them to look at the camera (an instrument not familiar in Italian villages or Russian hamlets in 1904) and ignited the magnesium flare. "It took all the resources of a hypnotist, a supersalesman and a ball pitcher," he said, "to prepare them to play the game and then to outguess them so most were not either wincing or shutting their eyes when the time came to shoot." The results rank among the greatest camera portraits ever taken, calmly relentless in their inspection...
...obvious level, Falconer Prison is a bureaucratic inferno where men are not beaten but left to burn in their memories. Farragut's flare periodically throughout the book. He recalls the decline of his family's fortune and their retreat into eccentricity and shabby gentility. He remembers the beginning of his drug addiction during World War II. As an infantryman in the South Pacific, he got regular rations of codeine cough medicine and Benzedrine. Drugs helped him endure a postwar world that he felt had "outstripped the human scale," and sustained him in his marriage to a beautiful, cruel...
With two-and-a-half minutes remaining in the middle period, however, mutual tempers began to flare. Murray Dea was called for elbowing and Princeton waited until a few seconds after its power play to ruin Petrovek's shutout, with Trevor Kilburn doing the honors on a slapshot with 16 seconds left in the period...
...have clashed almost continuously since April 1974, when the ruling Labor Party's central committee, by a 298-to-254 vote, chose Rabin over Peres as its candidate to succeed Golda Meir as Premier. The latest flare-up involves Asher Yadlin, whom Rabin recently picked to be governor of the Bank of Israel, the country's No. 2 financial post. A gambling buff (he favors the Las Vegas roulette table) with an eye for pretty women, Yadlin is also a major fund raiser for the Labor Party; since 1973, he has headed Israel's huge Kupat Holim...