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Amid all this uncertainty, the Administration got a rare piece of good news on inflation. May's wholesale prices rose a modest .4%, vs. .9% in April, the smallest increase in nine months. The main reason: a drop in food prices, including beef, because of a decline in consumption. But food prices may resume their rise because crop-killing rains in the Midwest could tighten supplies of corn and wheat, and OPEC's continuing oil price rises will further fire up inflation...
...When she got the job in 1975, Economist Rivlin, 48, an Indiana-bred Bryn Mawr magna who had labored 22 years at the left-listing Brookings Institution and in the bureaucracy, faced two hurdles. Many in Capitol Hill's chauvinist bastion gossiped that the Judy Garland look-alike would be, well, too feminist, too liberal. But she has proved that sex does not count in political economics, and her balanced judgments have made her popular even with conservatives...
...however. The camera keeps cutting to the empty chair next to his coach (Pancho Gonzalez, playing himself and, very nicely too). Obviously someone terribly important in the kid's life is missing, and Vilas blows him out in the first two sets. How the lad (Dean-Paul Martin) got to Wimbledon, and the reason for his sudden loss of poise, is told in a series of flashbacks intercut with the unfolding drama of the big match...
When a neighbor knocked on the front door of Helen and Wesley LaRoza's house in Simi Valley, Calif., outside Los Angeles, he got no answer. Yet he could clearly hear the burbling sounds of water in the fiber-glass and redwood hot tub that had been installed in their backyard. So he knocked again. Finally, when no one responded, he summoned help. The police found the LaRozas floating in the water-dead. Though detectives first suspected a double suicide, the Ventura County medical examiner, Dr. Donald Kornblum, concluded otherwise: "Quite simply, they died of hyperthermia, or heatstroke...
...also for publishing information that the Progressive says it gathered entirely in the public domain or through interviews. Knoll told the editors: "I now regret having followed our attorney's advice." To which Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee replied: "Now, because of some chicken lawyer . . . you've got me cornered into supporting you-reluctantly. I do it with about as much enthusiasm as I would Larry Flynt and Hustler...