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...danger to the enjoyment of these cartoons are among those who would analyze them--the bewailings of the falling-off of the cartoon market after the demise of the Saturday Evening Post, the endless discussions over drawing versus captions, even, God forbid, analytical tracings of artistic styles--they all glut the air and remove these cartoons into some sort of exalted humorless nether-region. The Saturday Evening Post had lousy cartoons (e.g. Hazel); drawings and captions balance each other out just fine; and no, I don't think Charles Addams is indebted to Salvador Dali...
State prison systems around the country are backing up like flooded sewers, particularly in the South. To alleviate the glut in Georgia's prisons, Corrections Commissioner Allen Ault last month announced that no new inmates would be accepted in any of the state's 37 correctional facilities. Last week the state took an even more drastic step: it released 350 inmates, mainly first offenders with one year or less to serve...
...that he was murdered by a gun because he had a gun. I do not blame him for wanting to protect himself, although I am opposed to all ownership of handguns. I do blame his killer for doing what he did. And I blame the Congress for permitting a glut of handguns to create the conditions that forced my uncle to purchase a gun. Must we all arm ourselves in an attempt to deal with each other...
...wholly trustworthy: key parts rose more rapidly than the index as a whole. Farm products and processed foods and feeds went up a disturbing 2.3% in August alone. The OPEC cartel has announced a price increase of 10% on crude oil, but there is speculation that the world oil glut will hold actual increases to less than that...
...because of decontrol the price of gasoline will rise only 3? a gallon, and the nation's total oil bill will go up only $5.3 billion over the next twelve months. Main reason for their optimism: a belief that stiff competition among oil companies resulting from a world glut of crude will keep the price increases moderate...