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...would-be followers is a perfectly sensible "You'll have to work things out for yourselves"), but ends up being crucified anyway. To make matters worse, one of his fellow sufferers on Golgotha is one of those awful people who grow only more cheerful as the situation becomes grimmer. He insists on leading the condemned in choruses of a Broadway-style tune, The Bright Side of Life, as they hang from their crosses...
...emergency meeting of the Nationalists' Central Committee last week one member even raised the prospect of playing a "Russia card" in answer to America's "China card"-meaning Taiwan would seek ties with the U.S.S.R. This suggestion was flatly rejected. Washington, actually, was worried about a grimmer prospect. Taiwan has a host of talented scientists and an accelerated nuclear reactor program; predictions were that it could produce an atomic bomb in two years...
...band of romantic South American revolutionaries based in France. As the book commences, they are subverting the Establishment by filling new cigarette packages with burnt-out butts, and smuggling cartons of the fakes into bars and tobacco shops to be sold as the real thing. They progress to grimmer matters, among them the kidnaping of a South American police official...
Last year Bantam Books President Oscar Dystel spread a little gloom among his colleagues when he cautioned that net unit sales?the actual number of. paperback books sold?have remained fairly static since 1973, William R. Grose, editor in chief of Dell, takes a grimmer view. "I used to think there was a ceiling on paperback rights. Now I don't know. The consumer is the one who pays for all this nonsense, and the consumer doesn't seem to have balked. Everyone you talk to will say it's an unhealthy situation, but no one knows what...
...prices, matched March's jump of 10% at an annual rate. In the second half, however, he expects "marked slowing" in retail food prices to bring inflation down to about 6%, resulting in a rise in prices of 6.5% for the year as a whole. Sprinkel makes a grimmer projection: inflation will top 7% in every quarter of 1978 and hit 7.6% in December. Says he: "We have thrown away all the gains against inflation we made in the recession and are off on another binge." He puts most of the blame on the Federal Reserve's easygoing...