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First Zach gets a job in the gold mines--dehumanizing experience number one. Soon he loses that job, and in rapid succession he loses a few others--houseboy, gas station attendant, waiter, road crew--when the white employers become displeased with him. These contacts with Afrikaaners and Britishers--who insist on being called "Boss" or something equally demeaning--are typified in this encounter with the shrewish woman who hires, then summarily fires, Zach as her houseboy...
...HOURS FOR HIKE! MULE RESCUES ARE COSTLY AND NOT ALWAYS AVAILABLE." Scratched under that was the legend "Jim Duggin did it on only two quarts, 4/13/77." I had no water at all, and I planned to make the whole ascent in three hours, so I set off at a rapid pace...
Some other reasons for thinking that the business slowdown will not deepen into recession: averaging out quarterly swings, the 42-month-long expansion has been moderate so far, and has not produced the excesses?a too rapid pile-up of business inventories, for example?that can be corrected only by recession. Consumer buying has held up fairly well, business investment in new plant and equipment is picking up a bit, and both should be spurred by the tax reduction of $16 billion to $18 billion a year that Congress is about to enact. In 1979, though, that cut will just...
...runs through a cast of character sketches unseen since the early days of Jonathan Winters. "Earthquake!" he will yell, jumping up and down, before he rushes out to the audience to heckle himself. Within seconds, he is back onstage, giving a beautiful basso profundo rendition of Shakespeare, followed by rapid-fire impressions of a go-go boy, Long John Silver and characters from a Japanese science-fiction movie. "It's madness all around," he explains. "But the center is very calm, like the center of a hurricane...
Then the film went into rapid reverse as the game entered the realm of the absurd with three-and-a-half minutes remaining...