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...passed with a Cheshire smile and a handshake. At the bar, he snared his drink like a swimmer taking a racing-turn in slow-motion and continued to make the rounds of the room. As we shook hands, I noticed that four letters were written in felt tip black ink across the carmel palm of his right hand. The letters were "FMBC". I asked him what they stood...
...resort hotel where he is competing, he gazes indifferently at the panorama of golf courses outside; of the strolling honeymooners he can only murmur tonelessly: "They must be bored." What throws his game off more than anything else is a glaringly unaesthetic move by the challenger ("like smearing ink over the picture we had painted...
...writing is almost by definition lengthy and leisured. Yet Editor Martin Goldman has managed in only one year to make the concept work. The monthly mixture of excerpted articles and books, commissioned artwork and original offbeat interviews has doubled in circulation to 400,000 and is approaching the black-ink border...
...deficit continued to balloon until devaluation of the dollar late last year, but is improving in 1972. The shortfall totaled $4.1 billion in the first six months, v. $11.9 billion a year earlier. The red-ink figure is still high by historic standards, though, and U.S. imports are persistently exceeding exports. Rating: fair...
...badly mistaken. Almost at once, the Furies descended. The telephones and news tickers at McGovern's temporary headquarters in Custer, S. Dak., quickly relayed the anger and dismay of key Democrats round the U.S. McGovern's finance chiefs, already facing a red-ink campaign, winced in despair. Editorialists let go their thunderbolts, crying for Eagleton to quit the ticket. McGovern calmly stayed put in South Dakota. Eagleton, at first shaken, gained strength through a hectic week of campaigning in California and Hawaii. By the end of the week, it was McGovern who seemed to be wavering...