Word: greats
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Labor Pressures. Prices in Italy are on the rise again after two years of stability. Lately, the annual rate of increase has climbed to 3%, and the potential for further escalation is great. Labor contract clauses that raise wages to reflect the cost of living are being invoked once more, and 3,000,000 workers in the steel, auto and engineering industries will be seeking further large boosts this fall...
...Britain's example is hardly comforting. The country's unemployment rate in August rose to 2.5%, the highest for that month since 1940, and fears of a sharp recession this winter are growing. Other countries' hopes for restraining inflation without recession depend in great part on how quickly the U.S. cools its overheated economy. U.S. inflation has caused imports to rise, and they include much European production that is needed to satisfy consumer demand on the Continent. To a remarkable degree, the U.S. fight against inflation has become a prime concern of every industrial country...
Condon's great and nourishing strength has always been his mania for mania. The mushy midsection of the human-behavior range has no interest for him, and ordinary psychosis not much more. What grips his imagination, and shakes it till splendid words fall out, is the tic of a human bomb. In one novel, a beautiful woman feeds for 20 years on the high-held hope that she will one day, somehow, be able to chop up her lover with a machete. In another, a man sets out, in more sinister fashion, to learn by heart every last scrap...
Paul Burkholder, 66, who is now at the University of Puerto Rico and works in a laboratory at Mayagüez, also serves as senior marine scientist for Lederle Laboratories. Some of his antibacterial finds have come from sponges collected from as far away as Australia's Great Barrier Reef and Palau in the Caroline Islands. When he arrived in Rhode Island last week, he had scarcely dried off from a scuba-diving, sponge-hunting expedition on the outermost edge of the Caribbean, between the British islands of Virgin Gorda and Anegada. Burkholder made his dives with an assistant...
...soap bubbles. And so it goes, with sight gags interspersed with word foolery. The offbeat one-liner is Allen's comic forte, as when he speaks of a girl he was once fond of: "I used to make obscene telephone calls to her, collect." That might not be great comic writing, but it is good enough to take the money...