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More than anywhere else, this disease is reflected in the press. In-depth analysis of a problem is anathema to the press. There is a dangerous tendency to form a herd, shutting off successful development [of independent thought]. I have received letters in America from highly intelligent persons, maybe a teacher in a far-away small college, who could do much for the renewal and salvation of this country, but his country does not hear him because the media are not interested...
...then came Walker, blazing through the "B" bracket like a herd of longhorns on the Texas plains. Scotty breezed through three early matches, beat Dartmouth's Mark Schneider in the quarters (6-4, 6-3), and downed Yale's Brad Dressler in the semis (7-5, 6-3) to reach yesterday's finals...
...unfounded-rumor that Exxon Corp. had struck oil off the New Jersey coastline. In addition, there were reports that President Carter was considering reducing the size of his proposed tax cut, a move that would tend to counter inflation. Buyers also came back because of the Street's herd instinct. As one broker put it, investors saw the gathering momentum and the market's rising prices and said, "Oh God, it's getting away from us"-and rushed in before prices rose further...
...Buffett bottled it quick before it fizzed, and the music hasn't changed much over the six albums in the last five years. Buffett's chartbusting last year was the result mainly of promotional considerations and the pull of a big-name producer, Norbert Putnam, who used to ride herd on Kris Kristofferson. Changes In Latitudes sured wasn't a new style--the best song on the album, "In The Shelter," was written six years...
...still cannot remember how we got to Fort Lauderdale alive, but my next memory after the giant syllabus and an uncomfortably close look at some palm trees is that of Namo and I waking up on the beach in our shorts, two pale WASPish figures lying next to a herd of tanned and blonded young Aryan demigods frolicking in the sun. When I looked around me I noticed a girl from Michigan State, coated with coconut oil, lying next to us and leering at me without speaking. I put my heard back in the sand and slept...