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Real G.N.P. shot up at an 11.2% annual rate in the third quarter, mostly because businessmen at last stopped living off their shelves and out of their warehouses and started filling sales orders from new production. The end of inventory liquidation gave the economy a one-shot jolt that will not be repeated, so the fourth-quarter gain will be considerably more modest. But that will not represent any real setback. The Administration this week will officially predict a 6% growth for next year. That will be enough to bring unemployment down, though at an agonizingly slow pace. The October...
...Quakers began with three losses, defeated Lafayette two weeks ago, and then shocked the Tigers last Saturday for the fourth year in a row. In so doing, they not only gave Princeton's title aspirations a severe jolt, but served notice that the Crimson may be in for more than just a tour of Independence Hall this weekend...
...Hearsts received another jolt two weeks later. Striding showily into a Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco's Sunset district, a black man and four white women wielding semiautomatic carbines announced, "We're from the S.L.A." "This," shouted one of them, "is Tania Hearst!" Unmistakably, the bank's automatic cameras filmed Patty Hearst brandishing a rifle at center stage in the bank lobby. Needlessly opening fire as they left the bank, the robbers fled with $10,960. Declared Patty's distraught father: "It's terrible! Sixty days ago, she was a lovely child. Now there...
...parts of the Pacific and North American plates have slid some 30 ft. past each other. Near San Francisco, there is another locked section. Sooner or later, such segments will have to catch up with the inexorable-movement of the opposing plates. If they do so in one sudden jolt, the resulting earthquakes, probably in the 7-to 8-pt. Richter range and packing the energy of multimegaton hydrogen bombs, will cause widespread destruction in the surrounding areas...
...approaches fall, bringing down hundreds of cars with them. In the Bay Area Rapid Transit System's 3.6-mile-long underwater link between San Francisco and Oakland, hundreds of commuters are trapped in the terrifying darkness of the swaying tube. Only 30 seconds have elapsed since the first jolt was felt, but everywhere there is unbelievable death and destruction. At least 10,000 people are dead; more than 300,000 have been injured, 40,000 of them seriously enough to be hospitalized. Property damage is $10 billion...