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...famous neon jungles, Tokyo is something of a dragon's palace. It is an outlandish monument to nonchalance in the face of a fuel shortage and economic repercussions that will hurt Japan far more than the U.S., and even more than Western Europe. But behind its hectic face, there is a clearly sensed feeling of desperation, the atmosphere of a Japanese Walpurgisnacht...
Composed in the hectic minutes preceding a Newsbreak broadcast, Osgood's verse veers erratically between Ogden Nash and Edgar Guest ("Nothing could be finer/ Than a crisis that is minor/ In the morning" reads one typical effort). "If you're writing a four-minute poem," Osgood explains, "and you have about a half-hour in which to do it, you accept whatever the muse lays...
...Christmas approaches and the most hectic and trying year in his memory draws to a close, President Nixon will face a particularly severe test. Congress will recess late this week, sending members home for a month of fence mending and careful probing of sentiment about the President among those whom Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott calls "the people in the drugstores." What the legislators hear may well determine Nixon's future, for most would agree with Republican National Chairman George Bush that "the momentum for resignation or impeachment will [have to] come from the people." Adds Scott: "Every member...
...Nixon's ten-day blitzkrieg to restore his credibility, took place behind closed doors. The exception, of course, was his hour-long televised press conference with the Associated Press Managing Editors in Florida's Disney World (TIME, Nov. 26). While carried off with panache and an almost hectic energy, that performance at many points was something less than candid. In fact, on closer examination, the list of some of the distortions, innuendoes and false assumptions by the President is astonishing...
...pinch on U.S. supplies of grain and beef is only part of a worldwide scarcity of raw materials. For almost every important commodity - meat, wheat, rice, soybeans, wool, cocoa, copper, lead, rubber- world production is falling behind ravenous demand, and hectic bidding for supplies is rocketing prices. A Reuters index of commodity prices leaped 91% in the twelve months ended July...