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...stroke of 12 one night this month, church bells rang, sirens wailed and gongs boomed the length and breadth of Ghana. The noise signaled neither a national holiday nor a sneak air attack. It was meant simply to remind Ghanaians that a new census was about to begin...
...never-ending scramble for a rapid dollar, Wall Street speculators can be moved to frenzy by the vaguest rumor. Their response to every economic fad and fancy is almost a conditioned reflex. In the uranium boom that followed World War II, the magic words atomic and nuclear rang through brokers' offices with the authority of an inside tip. Just about any company that managed to get that magic into its name, or to pass the word that it had even a fringe involvement in the field, enjoyed a profitable play in the market. Since then, the speculative incantation...
Miss Collins achieved a few rare moments of musical tenderness, though her vocal sentimentality was much more often usually hollow and unconvincing. She sang of peace and beauty, and lovers by the side of lilycovered country ponds. Her voice rang clear, but it failed to convey any sense of meaning in the idyllic images she created for her listeners. Judy Collins was like the classic Pine Manor girl whose glowing radiance enchants you, so that you can only nod blindly at her purrings of romantic fantasy...
...week Washington and the nation were preoccupied with Richard Nixon's budget and economic message, with the pain of inflation and the fear of recession. Through all the talk about billions and trillions, and about the size and direction of future growth, rang echoes of the President's State of the Union message of the week before. "In the next ten years," Nixon said in one remarkable passage, "we shall increase our wealth by 50%. The profound question is: Does this mean we will be 50% richer in a real sense, 50% better off, 50% happier...
...folly. When he committed his feelings to paper-"Echoes of crics of pain revererate in my heart" -no one laughed. Moral statements having become the property of unct?ous rhetoricians and pious coniving presidents, we tend to hear them with skepticism and anger. Russell's words, however, rang true to almost everyone who heard, because they were complemented by a life style that was manifestly gentle, courageous, and loving...