Word: grim
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Halfway through what has so far been a dismal year for the economy, the Nixon Administration is still groping for a way to break the grim combination of stagnant production, roaring inflation, strangling interest rates and slumping financial markets. Last week the President met at the White House with 25 top businessmen and non-Government economists to solicit their views...
Richard Burton, 48, is a lonely man. There are lawyers, advisers, gofers, groupies, of course, and until last week, there was Liz. Now Dick must struggle on alone-or almost. Looking grim but fit the day after Liz obtained a Swiss divorce, Burton sailed from Manhattan to Europe last week accompanied by Ellen Rossen, 27, daughter of late Film Director Robert Rossen. Ellen and Burton got to know each other during the making of Daddy's epic Alexander the Great, released in 1956. Other meetings followed. Apparently Teen-Ager Ellen was a welcome backstage visitor when Dick starred...
...larger groups that watched the motorcade pass by was composed of Syrian refugees from the Golan Heights. The tough-looking young soldiers that guarded the airport and roads were armed with Russian-made AK-47s. Nixon's limousine also swept by a Palestinian refugee camp composed of grim, concrete-block and tin-roofed buildings...
...Grim-faced, gritting his teeth, his voice quavering, Kissinger angrily declared that "I do not believe it is possible to conduct the foreign policy of the United States under these circumstances when the character and credibility of the Secretary of State is at issue. And if it is not cleared up, I will resign. I have been generally identified, or it has been alleged that I am supposed to be interested primarily in the balance of power. I would rather like to think that when the record is written, one may remember that perhaps some lives were saved and perhaps...
...three major grain-exporting countries-the U.S., Canada and Australia -global food stores would be sharply reduced. University of Toronto Climatologist Kenneth Hare, a former president of the Royal Meteorological Society, believes that the continuing drought and the recent failure of the Russian harvest gave the world a grim premonition of what might happen. Warns Hare: "I don't believe that the world's present population is sustainable if there are more than three years like...