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...control. European refiners have had to swallow a 17% rise in the cost of Mid dle Eastern and North African oil in the past six months, and some textile mills are paying 40% to 50% more for cotton and wool, partly because purchases by the all-consuming Japanese have shrunk supply. The most volatile commodity of all is the $80 billion in Eurodollars, spilled out of the U.S. by past excessive American spending, that ricochets from country to country, feed ing inflation by swelling the available money supply...
...Yorty's $570,000), he is slipping badly. Three weeks ago Brad ley held a 43.4% to 28.5% lead over Yorty, with an unusually high 20.1% still undecided and another 8% refusing to announce a choice. As of last week Bradley's edge had shrunk to a meager 42% to 39%, with 19% still undecided...
...woman, unwilling to submit to conventional surgery for a brain tumor, underwent magnetic surgery in March. Rand cannot find the tumor with X rays any longer, and although he will not say that the growth has disappeared, there is good reason to believe that it has at least shrunk. The patient's eye, which had been forced part way out of its socket by the expanding tumor, has returned to its proper place...
Street scenes become the arena for Steinberg's whole menagerie: skinny, whiskered gunslingers dodge policemen larger than their cars, while girls with legs drawn out and torsos shrunk down to miniskirts pass by. The neon signs in the shop windows advertise only "Rgh!", "Feh!" and "Pzz!". Elsewhere, several crocodiles are seen strolling in front of a basilica...
...Wednesday, graduate students as well as undergraduates were pushing resolutely through the Union's picket lines, and the lines themselves had shrunk to about 130 members--half of Monday's size. On Thursday, they shifted their route to encircle only University and Massachusetts Halls...