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...just swallowed something huge. The people born during the baby boom form a large group that comes between two periods of baby bust: the Depression and the 1970s. The boom is slowly working its way through society, and is now reaching the center point. Says Consumer Researcher Fabian Linden: "The baby-boom generation is not some esoteric Indian tribe but is now the hard core, the mainstream, of the population...
Industrial production is declining, consumer goods are in short supply, and political repression is mounting. That is not usually the kind of record that keeps incumbents secure in office. Yet in Guyana, President Linden Forbes Burnham, 57, felt more than confident that his 16-year-old regime would be returned to office in this week's national elections. As he boasted to cheering supporters of his People's National Congress party, "We are the only [party] that can produce for ourselves a 75% majority after the votes have been cast...
...blackout hit sections of East Cambridge, Central Square and Harvard Square. At Harvard, the main office of Buildings and Grounds and offices on both Plympton and Linden streets lost all power between...
...research group, last week also reported a sharp increase in consumer confidence. The monthly survey of 5,000 households had been declining steadily since November 1979, and it hit bottom in May, when only 42.1% felt optimistic about current business conditions and the future of the economy. But Fabian Linden, the director of the survey, reports: "There was a rather marked and surprising increase in consumer spirits beginning in June, and that was repeated more dramatically in July." In those two months, the index spurted 16 points...
...looked like a rehearsal for Celebrity Allstars. Rarely have so many famous TV and movie names come together in one spot: Carroll O'Connor, Erik Estrada, Ed Asner, Henry Winkler, Cheryl Ladd, John Forsythe, Telly Savalas, Alan Alda, Hal Linden, Walter Matthau. But the actors who gathered last week in front of the 20th Century-Fox studios on Pico Boulevard were not playing roles. They were marching up and down Pico as part of a strike that has stopped production of most new TV shows and feature films...