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...affair, Rostropovich loosed the atmosphere with his antics. At one point in the concerto's slow movement, the oboe and the solo cello join in a singing contrapuntal duet. The oboist was playing too loudly for Rostropovich's taste, and so he stopped playing, turned around, and, shaking his index finger, abruptly accused and convicted the offender. "Are you the cause of this?" Rostropovich mockingly sneered. The wind players laughed, and Rostropovich grinned like a satisfied child...
...some distinct flight images: Ronald Reagan running hither and yon to regain $90 billion worth of lost ground; Gerald Ford running for daylight, daylight which for him must come in regular bursts on the first Friday and the 20th of each month with the proclamation of jobless and price index figures; and, most recently, Jimmy Carter running for cover from forays into his past...
...surprise that inflation has also hit those who manufacture phony money. In 1966 the average take after passing a counterfeit bill was $14.30. Now the counterfeiters are making more bills of larger denominations. The average amount ripped off last year reached $23.18, a jump of 62%. The Consumer Price Index rise since 1966 was almost exactly the same. Because big bills do not mean so much these days, a Secret Service counterfeiting specialist concedes, "you can change a $100 bill more easily now." Trouble is, they buy less-just like real dollars...
...those who work for the Federal Government and some state and local government workers. Congress has never seen fit to include them, and they now have their own, separate pension plan. Benefit levels have been greatly increased, and a 1972 law tied them to movements in the consumer price index so that they are automatically lifted every year by inflation. Among other things, Social Security pays the Medicare hospitalization benefits of the elderly and picks up bills for kidney dialysis treatments for patients of all ages...
Some 900 names are listed in the index, and in the course of pointing American history toward his climactic moment, Kluger strikes off a small Who's Who of black politics, including a remarkable group portrait of the Howard Law School graduates commanded by Thurgood Marshall. The Supreme Court Justice was just a legal strategist then, and a bit of a bon vivant, dashing in tweeds, with wavy hair and eyes as soulful as a bandleader's. Kluger also provides a contrapuntal portrait of John W. Davis, who ran for the Democrats against Calvin Coolidge...