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...Government to attack the myriad federal laws and regulations that already benefit special interests - including portions of the Government itself - to the detriment of anti-inflationary policy. The economists denounced such contrivances as methods of restricting competition, propping wages at high levels and sustaining lofty prices for oil, ship ping, meat, even uranium for nuclear power plants. If the more invidious pieces of tailored legislation were repealed or amended, suggested Harvard Economist Hendrik S. Houthakker, the nation's entire price level eventually would be 5% to 10% lower than if no changes were made...
When the visiting team puts men on base, the pitcher calmly switches to a ping-pong ball, a nerf ball, or even a medicine or bowling ball, thus halting all chances of a clean base...
...time, the moderate party leadership that emerged after the Tenth Party Congress a year ago has endured intact. Chou Enlai, whose relative inactivity over the summer led to rumors that he was out of favor, seems now to have been in genuinely poor health. Party Vice Chairman Teng Hsiao-ping, who took over many of Chou's duties, continues to be prominently featured in the press. Significantly too, party members who are associated with China's outgoing foreign policy continue to outrank most of the radicals...
Upstairs at the Union (sounds like name for a preppie bar) there's a room full of ping-pong tables, ppool tables and pinball machines ready to eat up quarters and time. Many otherwise rational and intelligent men and women of Harvard have succumbed to the addiction of the shiny steel balls--a manifestation of some repressed sexual desires...
...Jack's around, that feeling disappears." Occasionally, Nicholson's competitiveness gets in the way of the general bonhomie. Bob Rafelson recalls that during the shooting of The King of Marvin Gardens, all of Nicholson's bottled-up energies would come out in a series of demon Ping Pong games with the crew. Says Rafelson: "He demolished everyone who dared to take him on." Nicholson is smart enough to know when to call off rivalries. He avoided Ping Pong competition with Michelangelo Antonioni, who directed him in the upcoming The Passenger, fearing shaky times if the filmmaker lost...