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Other authors may not be able to make that boast. Random House is suing A.E. Hotchner to recoup an $11,250 advance for a memoir that he completed but the publisher rejected as "unsatisfactory." Putnam has begun proceedings against Joseph Hayes (The Desperate Hours) to regain $33,750 for a book called Missing and Presumed Dead that Putnam refused to publish...
...Horvath (John Cullum) is a middle-aging stock-car racer whose psyche is skidding on a wet track. His earlier dreams of flashing under the wire first in the Indianapolis 500 have now become the wearying nightmares of a perpetual loser. He has come home to Mansfield, Ohio, to recoup his losses, possibly by never racing again, but at least by making peace with the wife and daughter he deserted, the father he fought with and the town he despised for its conformist inertia. What follows is what the British critics call "the American barroom confessional play," in which...
This time matters may be different. Though steel mills are still operating at only 72% of capacity, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel, one of the companies announcing an increase, claimed that flat-rolled products are selling especially well. National Steel, which led the increase, added that the boost would "only partially" recoup rising costs for materials, labor and freight. Significantly, Armco, the company that torpedoed the October rise, joined this...
After losing (in most of the public's judgment) the first televised debate, partly because he was too deferential, Carter tried to recoup by taking a harsher approach to Gerald Ford. Said Carter: "Ford is a good automobile. It is not doing too well in the White House-stuck in the mud, four flat tires, out of gas, gears locked in reverse." The stridency of his attack offended many voters. At the same time, Carter was growing more peevish with the press, and he began to withdraw...
...apparent Republican failure to mount effective challenges to many of the presumably most vulnerable members of the 94th Congress obviously hinders their chances to recoup the 1974 loss of 43 seats. Some observers give the GOP a chance to pick up as many as a dozen of those seats, but they also concede, often in the same sentence, that the minority party may suffer a net loss in the House...