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...policy to deal with a major event that will significantly influence the economy later this year: the steel labor negotiations. No decision has been made on whether to accept a strike, in hopes that it might slow down wage-push inflation, or avoid a strike at all costs, lest it badly damage the economic recovery...
Fitzgerald's life and works touch all these topical bases and then some. Still, lest Fitzgerald be lost in the shuffle again once his current vogue has passed, it is important that the lasting qualities of his work-the genius and sheer power that mark his writing as some of the best of this century-not be overlooked. Happily, the first of this year's crop of Fitzgerald books, Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood, does not sell its subject short...
...hadn't been for the acrobatics of goalie Bruce Durno, Harvard would have lest by a lot more than one goal. Durno ended his excellent career by turning away 35 shots, many of them from point-blank range...
...Democratic labor battalions to march on Republican strongholds. For the guests' delectation, there were 11,000 filet mignons, 3,500 lbs. of potatoes and 1,800 lbs. of carrots. The appetizer was 2,200 lbs. of fruit cocktail. Desserts: 11,000 créme de menthe parfaits. Lest throats become parched, 2,010 qt. of liquor and 130 cases of beer were readied at 80 bars...
...ridicule, the figure was "revised" to 87.9%. Last week President Thieu announced that 99.8% of the population and 99.4% of the hamlets and villages were controlled by the government. Yet even if the hamlets rated A (for fully government-controlled), few ranking officials would care to spend the night lest the Communists stage a lethal raid...