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...five of the magazine's remaining editors and charged them with conspiracy and spreading propaganda hostile to the state. They may face an even harsher sentence than Mihajlov's; and their arrest suggests that his last-ditch appeal to the Yugoslav high court is a hopeless effort...
...might as well live" is the way men and women normally feel-whatever their present misery. "There is no conceivable human situation," says Dr. Yolles, "which is unendurable or hopeless enough to drive a healthy man to death-neither mental anguish nor concentration camp torture nor bankruptcy." Viewing the suicidal tendency as a kind of mental illness, Yolles predicts that attacking it on a national scale will lower the U.S. suicide rate in a few years...
Intra's trouble was still far from hopeless, but the smell of blood was in the financial air. Pro-Saudi Arabian politicians in Lebanon cited leftist newspaper attacks on King Feisal to persuade some Saudis to make immense withdrawals. Attempting to head off an acute crisis, Bedas went to the government's Central Bank for a loan. There he ran up against old foes, and the loan was refused. Word of the refusal soon reached the leaders of Lebanon's bank employee union, who disliked Bedas for keeping the union out of Intra with high salaries. With...
...motives. One line of speculation was that while he did indeed need "a little stitchin'," as he put it, what persuaded him to begin resting up for the surgery immediately was the realization that if he undertook his campaign trip, he might be staking his prestige on several hopeless causes...
...political race." He was under no illusions. A spoiler redeemed by a sense of humor about the political grotesqueries of New York-and, happily, about himself as well-Buckley merely set out to give his lumps to all comers, notably Lindsay, whose campaign Buckley characterizes as "sheer, utter, hopeless, humorless, philistine fatuity." For all that, Buckley got a respectable 341,226 votes-not bad for a gadfly...