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About 99 million vacationers will visit the 201 U.S. national parks this year. They will bring with them a love of nature and a sense of wonder at the beauty that has been preserved against the onrush of progress. They will also bring with them thousands of cans of spray paint and the lust to desecrate...
...markets were swept by a crazy quilt of slumping and surging prices. Businessmen fretted over whether Carter's "disciplined" new effort to make money and credit scarcer and more costly would pitch the economy into recession for real, or if it would perhaps be swept aside by another onrush of inflation. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrial stocks dropped 23 points on the first day after Carter announced his program. It then bounced back and forth before finally closing out the week down 26.5 points at 785, its lowest level since April...
Those failed gods, West and East, appear to be as powerful as ever in the onrush of events. But the Slav Pope has suddenly emerged from his triumphant visit to Poland as a dramatic and compelling personality on the international scene. John Paul will surely have something of his own to say about the principalities and powers...
...maybe 11 or 12 years old, peered around wide-eyed. This was his first Harvard football game. Things seemed so strange, and Mister Rogers was not on hand with the answers. Maybe the man, who served also as his father, could explain this sudden onrush of the bizarre...
...West Coast, cars are especially vital. But the onrush of newcomers, especially in California, has raised environmental worries and brought new sympathy for conservation. There may be more resistance to sweeping energy saving in the Midwest, where farms grow on gas and the auto industry looms large, and in the South, where cold is rarely a concern and tourism means money. Yet even in fuel-rich Texas, presumably set in its freewheeling ways, local Pollster John Staples found after Carter's presentation that more people approved his energy approach than opposed it. Nearly half said they would buy a smaller...