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...strength of the comeback has caught Detroit off guard. The main reason for the upswing seems to be that buyers are shedding their recession-bred fear of spending. Now that the inflation rate is dropping (see box) and "real" incomes are rising, Americans are reverting to an old habit. As Ford Executive Vice President William Bourke puts it, "They often buy 'as much car' as their budgets allow, and 1976 budgets allow a greater mix of higher-priced cars than last year...
...prisoner searches in vain for the reasons for his arrest and torture. The more he thinks, the more suspicious he becomes of his friends. When he comes out, he decides, he won't talk to anyone. He will live alone, speak about nothing. Later, he will even lose the habit of thinking. That is how you keep another nation an ally of the West...
Thousands of heroin addicts have kicked the habit with the help of the synthetic drug methadone. But lately methadone clinics in major U.S. cities have become centers of increasing controversy. Last week critics of the methadone program got some unexpected support. It came from the same doctors who did more than anyone else to create the massive U.S. methadone program, which is currently treating some 80,000 addicts. In a special report to JAMA, Drs. Vincent P. Dole and Marie Nyswander of Rockefeller University acknowledge that the methadone program, however sound in theory, has failed abysmally in practice...
...explains Pastor James Supple). Last Easter the Catholic and Episcopal chaplains at an Eastern university assisted a Lutheran minister in celebrating the midnight Eucharist-in a Dutch Reformed church. Catholics are generally enjoying a new freedom to attend Protestant and Jewish services. "In Oklahoma, we got into the habit of going down to a black revival church," says Jim Scott of Our Lady of Malibu parish. "At first we went down for the fantastic choir, but we really began to appreciate all those people praying together. In that group they were really one." Conservative Catholics are ecumenical for quite another...
Murdered Critic. Nicholas Meyer's first literary "discovery"-an unpublished memoir by Sherlock Holmes' sidekick Dr. Watson-pleased almost everyone. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution happily accounted for Holmes' whereabouts after he was supposedly drowned in the Reichenbach Falls. He was, of course, breaking his cocaine habit under the tutelage of Sigmund Freud. The pairing of these two clue masters on one case lent Meyer's pastiche a glittering patina of ought-to-have-been. Alas, Meyer has "found" yet another of Watson's tales, and it should not have happened to anyone...