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...grimmer case involving efforts to compromise an enemy concerns former...
...grueling suspense is generated not by mystery but by a long, slow wait for the inevitable. Partly for this reason, he seems about to make the kind of killing (Book-of-the-Month Club, record paperback advance, vast movie contract, etc.) that the Jackal hoped for from his far grimmer enterprise...
...actual job offers told an even grimmer story. A survey of 140 U.S. colleges and universities indicated that between March 1970 and March 1971, job bids for male B.A.s dropped 61%, and a staggering 78% for Ph.D.s. Actual hiring will be down less, probably by 25% at the B.A. level. A possibly incomplete but telling poll of the 944 men who graduated from the letters and sciences division of the University of Wisconsin last year showed that only 174 were working full time; and of that number, only about half had the kind of job they wanted...
...deserted motels and HOUSE FOR SALE signs. The story could hardly have assuaged Fort Worth residents. They have faced the same dreary landscape since the severe cutbacks at General Dynamics and Bell Helicopter. Says Ray Hayes, an employment-agency executive: "The outlook for aerospace workers here has never been grimmer. I have a man with four degrees who never been grimmer. I have a man with four degrees who is peddling correspondence courses...
...price for every measure of religious freedom it provides. The highest-ranking clergyman to the lowliest parish priest must all satisfy the authorities in order to remain in place. This means that prelates are frequently required to promote policies considered to be in the Rumanian national interest. In grimmer days, pulpits were often used as platforms for political exhortation. Patriarch Justinian dutifully denounced the 1956 Hungarian revolt, and Chief Rabbi Rosen likewise excoriated NATO for arming West Germany. Nowadays, the clergy tends to have more innocuous, often worthy, obligations, such as raising money abroad for the victims of last spring...