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...least in financial circles, Sept. 11 will forever be famous for more than being the birthday of D.H. Lawrence, Ferdinand Marcos and Dallas Cowboy Coach Tom Landry. Shocking investors both here and abroad, the Dow Jones industrial average nose-dived 86.6l points last Thursday, the largest one-day drop in the history of the New York Stock Exchange. Bond prices also fell, although not so sharply, amid renewed market worries that the U.S. economy was about to face higher interest rates and increased inflation...
...gets around to recognizing their talents. Third, Harvard may also be losing junior talent who prefer to work at a school where they have a shot at tenure, instead of setting up shop in Cambridge for seven years and then folding the tent once Harvard has turned up its nose...
...near Los Angeles, could not believe his eyes. Looking up, he saw a flash of light 1 1/2 miles off to the left of his aircraft. The fireball turned into a plume of black smoke, and Campbell watched in horror as a huge DC-9 airliner dropped its nose and rolled to its left. Twisting upside down, the wounded aircraft picked up speed as it plunged toward earth. "Oh!" shouted Campbell to himself. "Pull her up. Pull her up. Oh, pull...
...social acceptability and of harmlessness put behind us now. I'd guess we'll see a relative improvement in the number of young people willing to try cocaine. Certainly the yuppie who has got his head screwed on halfway straight is not going to put that stuff in his nose, as he might have been tempted to do by a well-meaning user friend three or four years ago. You'd just have to be crazy to do it, with what people have seen...
...skimpy, almost as though Wilson were too busy to keep up with himself in his journals. But there are some striking encounters along the way. In Paris he discusses Indochina with Andre Malraux and observes that the Frenchman has a tic that "is something like a snort from the nose, and when he becomes excited and voluble, it sounds like the exhaust from a car." He visits W.H. Auden in a completely unheated New York City loft. "Wystan started up some queer kind of little stove, but we sat in our overcoats and our breath went up in vapor." Vladimir...