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Gradually, the full horror dawned on Peruvians. "Our losses," commented one newspaper, "will be greater than if we had lost a war." Indeed, officials speculated that by the time the last body is laid in a shallow grave and the last missing Indian villager is counted, the death toll might reach 50,000. If so, it will have been the deadliest earthquake in the recorded history of Latin America...
...Commissioner Bowie Kuhn was hopping mad. "This is a horrible piece of writing!" he fumed at Houston Astro Pitcher Jim Bouton, author of a new book called Ball Four. According to sources close to the commissioner's office, Kuhn went on: "You've done the game a grave disservice. Saying players kissed on the Seattle team bus-incredible! Or that some of our greatest stars were drunk on the field. What can you be thinking...
...does not, the Government could work against a further unemployment rise by drifting into a bigger budget deficit or expanding the money supply faster. But the Federal Reserve Board, which was forced to pump out money in the past two months to avoid a grave shortage in the banking system, lately has been gently reducing the rate of increase. In order to give the board more room to expand money without bringing about further inflation, many of Nixon's advisers-and Congress-have been prodding him to adopt some form of "jawboning" or wage-price guidelines. At week...
Calm men like John Gardner and Earl Warren spoke of social disintegration and grave danger. Citing violations of civil rights, the war and an "atmosphere of repression" as among the major causes, Warren said that there has been no crisis "within the memory of living Americans which compares with this one." The national mood is roiled and apprehensive. Policemen and pro-Nixon workingmen gave vent to their frustrations with the same vehemence as partisans on the other side...
After a visit to the Paris grave of famed Chanteuse Edith Piaf, his father's mistress, petit Marcel finally arrived at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week for his first fight in the U.S. As always, he carried with him cherished mementos of his father: the taped water bottle he always used in the ring, the watch he was wearing when he died, the bloodstained trunks he wore when he dethroned Zale. Whenever anyone mentioned his quest for the championship, petit Marcel spoke the few words of English he had mastered: "It is my destin...