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Mets' Reliever Tug McGraw, who went on to win the game, took the hill in the sixth frame but yielded a run in the seventh on a hit-batsmen, a walk, and a double to Reggie Jackson...
Behind righthander Tom Seaver, with ninth-inning relief from Tug McGraw, the Mets exploded a 2-2 deadlock with a four-run fifth inning to win the best of five game series, three...
...expect. Ann Sheridan to visit him any second with a nailfile baked in a pie. The rest of the cast is excellent, and everyone has a terrific American southwest accent. The only disappointment is Michelle Phillips as Billie Frechette, who manages to look like both Faye Dunaway and Ali McGraw, the new gun molls of the '70s (Eecch!). Her acting regrettably takes faithfully after Ali McGraw's (as if the Real McGraw isn't enough). Though not quite as smug, Phillips has the same simpering voice and snotty facial mannerisms that have made Quick-Draw McGraw's twitching mouth...
Businessmen, too, are turning frugal. Inventory buildup, which has contributed much to the corporate spending surge, decelerated by 50% in April, to $720 million. That is by far the smallest outlay in the past nine months. Capital spending plans are also being curtailed. In May, for example, a McGraw-Hill survey reported that businessmen round the country intended to raise plant-and-equipment spending this year by 19%. The latest Government study in June put the increase at a more modest 13%. Otto Eckstein, another member of TIME's board, predicts that the increase in capital outlays...
...annual rate of 1,800,000 units (see chart). That was the biggest monthly drop since the Government began tabulating figures on permits more than 80 years ago. "The widely predicted end of the housing boom of 1971-72 has finally arrived," declares George A. Christie, chief economist of McGraw-Hill's Dodge division, which compiles construction statistics. "The housing market has nowhere to go but further down...