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Outside now, the tourists study a hand-pump well that still works. The out house has not survived, a father responds to his son's loud question: "Where did L.B.J. go to the bathroom...
...that time when Phil Spector made them stop the airplane and let him off because he knew-Spector knew!-it was going to crash. And it has been a year and a half since the publication-on the same day!!!-of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Pump House Gang, and that's a lot of low profile for the wunderkind of the New Journalism...
...does not, the Government could work against a further unemployment rise by drifting into a bigger budget deficit or expanding the money supply faster. But the Federal Reserve Board, which was forced to pump out money in the past two months to avoid a grave shortage in the banking system, lately has been gently reducing the rate of increase. In order to give the board more room to expand money without bringing about further inflation, many of Nixon's advisers-and Congress-have been prodding him to adopt some form of "jawboning" or wage-price guidelines. At week...
...technical factors like a buying panic among short sellers, who had sold borrowed stock in the hope that the price would drop and then scrambled to cover their positions when prices began to rise. There were rumors, too, that for some mysterious reason important foreign investors had decided to pump $700 million into the U.S. market. At midweek, a more basic reason for optimism appeared in the form of remarks by Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns at President Nixon's White House dinner for business chiefs (see THE NATION...
...Federal Power Commission and the courts do grant Con Ed condemnation rights next fall, the power company will build five dikes on the Harvard land and pump water from a Hudson River reservoir into a valley in the forest...