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Beyond Control. The events, understandably, spread gloom to a big Boeing 707 jet flying over the deserts of Saudi Arabia one day last week. U.S. reporters on board heard one of the blackest assessments of global events ever uttered by a certain "senior American official." That prescribed euphemism, of course, failed to disguise the obvious source: Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. To hear him tell it, sounding like an airborne Spengler. American foreign policy seemed to be spinning out of control-and almost solely because Americans had plunged masochistically into a self-destructive attitude toward world affairs induced by their...
...Crimson has been hampered thus far by some of the worst university track facilities in the country. But they will escape the Cambridge gloom when they jaunt down to sunny South Carolina for some hard training and a meet with Baptist College over spring break...
...stop this bickering between the White House and Congress and get something done!' " The American public did not appear to be panicking; people were sober and subdued but still largely positive as they appraised their own and their country's future. "The mood isn't gloom and doom," says Norman Mineta, a freshman Democrat from Southern California. "The question always asked is how much and how long it is going to take to turn this around...
Swimming Pool. Atlanta Chevrolet Dealer Doug McCurdy is getting browsers in a buying mood by letting them work off frustrations by taking a sledgehammer to an old Mercury emblazoned with the words INFLATION, RECESSION, GLOOM, DOOM. In Mount Vernon, Ohio, Lincoln-Mercury Dealer Jack Ostrander has started accepting cattle from local farmers as part of a trade-in deal on new cars. Ostrander pays 65? per Ib. for steers or heifers, which he ships to his farm for resale later...
Such glib parallels have reinforced complaints by businessmen and public officials that the press is gratuitously contributing to bearishness. For the most part, however, the press has avoided wallowing in gloom. Nor have many publications been suffused with optimism-an attitude that most readers would reject anyway now that both Alan Greenspan, the President's chief economic adviser, and their own firsthand experience warn them that harder times are ahead...