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...showed you could do it... get rid of your suet," sang Bob Hope to the tune of Applause. His Manhattan audience of losers was celebrating the tenth anniversary of Weight Watchers International Inc. and cheering their heroine, Founder Jean Nidetch, who shrank from...
Throughout the U.S. economy's ups and downs of the past four years, President Nixon has never managed to rid it of the debilitating fever of inflation. Prices kept rising rapidly through the 1970 recession, in defiance of all economic nostrums. The increases subsided in part because of the wage-price freeze and Phase II controls, but in the five months of voluntaristic Phase III the economy's inflationary temperature has climbed to its highest point in two decades. The situation has helped create near chaos in stock and dollar-exchange markets...
...Holy Name, a subtle vibration felt during meditation throughout the body. With practice, harmonious chords can also fill the ear, and a taste of "nectar" may appear in the mouth. And besides receiving "Knowledge" in these four forms, the believer loses subservience to repressed desires. "You can get rid of your unconscious mind," Chadwick said. "What are we prisoners of? Our unconscious. We [people who "have Knowledge"] don't suppress it--we just lose...
...explanation of the need to join is more obvious. Faiths of any sort make difficult problems go away, especially those pertaining to the direction of one's life. Students are no less eager to rid themselves of the dilemmas of self-responsibility than anyone else. Thus, with increasing frequency, undergraduates here appear to be striking out on all sorts of paths marked with trappings of the supernatural, out of faith that the one they have chosen must lead to an Answer somewhere...
...higher commissions than the institutions do, and many feel that they get inferior research service from brokers. Some also fear that the institutions profit from inside information not available to the small investor. The Equity Funding scandal this spring did nothing to allay that suspicion; some institutions got rid of their stock before news broke that an insurance subsidiary of Equity Funding had been falsifying its books...