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Where troubles melt like lemon drops...
...symptom and a symbol of a community turned toward reality or away from it. "Humankind cannot bear very much reality," wrote T.S. Eliot, but neither, one might add, can it afford to have too little. And this spring, escapes with or without clothes to lands where "troubles melt like lemon drops" are taking on the trappings of a full-time occupation...
...cardboard boxes. This year, industry executives plan to increase spending on new factories and machinery by 34.4%, to $2.5 billion. Demand for steel far outstripped supply last year. Now the biggest steel users, the automakers, are cutting back orders sharply, but the nation's mills still cannot melt and roll steel fast enough to fill the needs of other customers. So, steelmen expect to boost 1974 capital spending by 30%, to $1.8 billion...
...said I did and we said nothing for a little while so I started looking at the others in the car. Chuck caught my attention first: He was 17 years old, a chunky kid, inclined to fat so that his features seemed to melt back into his flesh. But his nose stuck out a little, his thick lower lip was giving him a permanent pout, and his eyes were slits. The rest of his face was flat and square, like his body. He had curly black hair, close to his head, and wore a striped T-shirt. His face...
...fact, he has a great many other requirements to work through first, including the death-of-the-newborn-baby scene, the man-alone-in-the-city scene, and assorted other episodes that melt together into a trampled, slushy texture. There are also a lot of standard service comedy jokes that sound like an R-rated Sergeant Bilko...