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...Jack is bound to wind up falling all over himself every time he tries to fetch a pail of water. In truth, the world's literary and theatrical output, from high drama to nursery rhymes, is as violent and vice-ridden as yesterday's news. Poet Ezra Pound may have had something of the sort in mind when he said: "Literature is news that stays news...
...tank; missiles guided by t.v. cameras that destroy fenceposts as often as enemy targets; and even an Air Force flashlight so electronically sophisticated that almost every pilot bypasses it for $1.50 Japanese models that have the advantage of fitting inside their flight suits. Again and again his examples pound home points that make common sense--it's better to have many more relatively cheap fighter planes than a handful of super-sophisticated models that spend most of their time on the ground for repairs. And he scoffs at that American god, technology, Cheaper weapons, he says, tend to be more...
...celebrities actually go to jail for cocaine habits, but Football Players Randy Crowder and Donald Reese of the Miami Dolphins were not so lucky. Arrested in 1977 for trying to sell a pound of coke to undercover police, they were sent to the Dade County stockade for a year. Texas Rangers Pitcher Ferguson Jenkins made headlines with his arrest and conviction last year after Canadian customs officials found cocaine, marijuana and hashish in his suitcase. Although Jenkins' conviction was erased, he was suspended for two weeks by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. Last February, Thomas ("Hollywood") Henderson, a former Dallas...
Behind much of the wanderlust is the strong recovery of the U.S. dollar against most other currencies. So far this year, the U.S. currency has risen 20% against the once proud West German mark, 23% against the battered French franc and 20% against the British pound. Smiled San Francisco Surgeon Roy Carson, boarding a plane to visit relatives in Sweden: "We watched the dollar go down, and now we're watching it come back up again...
...easier to finance its military effort. In 1925 Winston Churchill, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, returned the country to the gold standard, believing that such a step would help restore the British Empire to its former preeminence. But he made the mistake of setting the value of the pound at its prewar gold price, which did not take account of high wartime inflation. This was a major cause of the nationwide general strike that virtually immobilized the economy in 1926. Indeed some historians believe that Churchill's decision to return to the gold standard helped trigger the worldwide Great...