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Costly Steaks. The industry makes no attempt to gloss over the serious de terioration of its finances. To get at least temporary relief, it is negotiating in Washington for the second fare in crease this year. Air travel has traditionally reflected the ups and downs of the U.S. economy, since, as one air line executive puts it, "vacation dollars are expendable dollars." Inflation and the incipient economic slowdown have cut into travel for both business and pleasure. In the first six months of 1969, passenger travel rose 11% from the 1968 level, 4% less than anticipated. During June...
Cohesion, however, need not preclude a little eclecticism. It has long been my intention to compile, someday, an encyclopedia of plot formulas, so arranged that a mere gloss would be sufficient to reduce even the shaggiest tale to several digits, say a "234 with a half-twist." Thankfully no such volume yet exists, for whole weeks might be lost in the effort to enumerate Good Art It, which far from being plotless, abounds with the treasured moments of myriad plots. On short count, the following old dependables seem to have resurfaced for the occasion: (a) slightly neurotic actress has stormy...
Paint cans and sponges in hand, and careful to use my shoulder rather than my wrist, I attacked the first wall with Sherwin-Williams gloss, trying for a flatheaded confrontation. There was something monumentally upsetting in the result; it was a chaos of raw emotion. The militant playfulness marking the first attack gave way to a scarifying vitality, almost flamelike, leaping forth and savagely sideways marking the spot where my youngest son had rubbed his backside across the wet wall. I charged on to the next one, which allowed for the incorporation of empty space, i.e., the doorway leading...
...Mott may be placated by a rhetorical gloss in his direction from the Vice-President. I will not be, and I doubt that very many of Senator McCarthy's supporters will be either," Peretz said...
Traveling Man. As a campaigner, Agnew was proving a quick study. Working with the Nixon staff in California, he was given a fast lesson in how to deal with the press, learning how to gloss over embarrassing questions and how to cut his answers from a windy five minutes to a streamlined minute and a half. In his first public appearance since nomination, he was a big hit, wowing a Portuguese-American association in San Francisco with language that will likely be repeated across the nation. It was an odd mixture of sensible patriotism and a smug defense...