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Pemagon Papers (Gravel Edition), Boston, Beacon Press, 1972. (Four volumes plus critical index and essays by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn...
Allen, a minus 36 handicap player who practiced 45 hours each week this summer, used the Chinese penholder grip--thumb and index finger wrapped around the handle, with three fingers behind the paddle. His quick offensive strokes symied the Crimson...
Between the end of 1972 and last month, when the latest study was completed, the consumer-confidence index plummeted 19 points to 71.8. That was a much sharper decline than in the 1969-1970 period just preceding the worst of the last recession. The report asserts that public gloom about all kinds of shortages and weaknesses in national leadership will soon show up in substantially reduced buying trends and that "a recession by early next year is possible, perhaps even probable...
...clutching at her chest, she was becoming faint and turning blue. What could he do? The symptoms were all too familiar to Prutting. He calmly advised his caller to lean the woman over a chair, pound her on the back and reach down her throat with his middle and index fingers to dislodge the obstruction. The doctor heard loud thumping sounds, and soon a relieved voice came back on the Line. "It was only a piece of beef," said the executive. "She's fine...
Alas, it was too good to be true. The September fall in wholesale prices canceled only part of the index's explosive 6.2% rise in August. Administration spokesmen quickly warned consumers not to expect a sudden downturn in store prices; indeed, Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, bluntly predicted a continued "fairly rapid rise in retail food prices" in the next six months. Industrial prices, which most economists regard as a better gauge of basic inflationary trends than mercurial farm prices, rose a substantial .7%. Even if the rise in living costs tapers off somewhat...