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...recession that followed. Then in December 1974, while the economy was plunging toward the bottom of the slump, the market began to turn upward smartly, anticipating the recovery that began last spring. During 1975, prices of shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange rose 38.7%, the second largest increase since World War II, though most of the advance occurred early in the year...
...seems to be there: the gauzy profile of skyscrapers seen from the Statue of Liberty, the brokers and bums and cops, the lunatic bustle, the claustrophobic alleys and carnival vitality. This gorgeous parody, one of the largest environmental sculptures (other than earthworks) ever made in America, is called Ruckus Manhattan. The space for it was procured by a nonprofit organization, Creative Time Inc., which coordinated the six-month creation, and was donated by the Orient Overseas Association, a shipping company. The buildings, cars, trains, boats and people-from life-size effigies to tiny, comic-strip figures painted on vinyl -were...
Budweiser, a former semi-pro team now playing college teams, was forced to play catch-up hockey most of the game, although the score was close throughout with the largest lead, a 3-1 freshman bulge, occuring in the second period...
From that point, the game settled into the expected pattern, as the Eagles utilized their frontcourt power and the shooting of Carrington to pull away to what was to be their largest lead of the night...
Between Pontiac and Detroit runs Michigan Highway No.1, Woodward Avenue, four lanes in each direction, a fitting testament to these cities and the industry that built and sustains them. Until the late 1960s Woodward acted not only as the principal thoroughfare between the nation's fifth largest city and Pontiac, but also as one last cement haven for the amateur drag racers who did at times barrel down the wide park way at speeds exceeding one hundred miles an hour. Today, staggered traffic lights and radar-equipped patrol cars have quashed what was once a standard form of recreation...