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Housing is one of the keys to the U.S. economy, because its fortunes affect the sales of lumber, steel, furniture, appliances and many other products. For the past two years, it also has been just about the sickest of all American industries. Last week it finally began flashing signals of a recovery, albeit a modest, slow and uneven...
...crisis in the dark," was not caused, as it so often has been in the past, by political infighting. This time it was the direct result of an economic disaster that has reduced Italy-the world's seventh largest industrial nation-to the status of Europe's sickest country, and threatens consequences beyond its borders...
...greatest numbers since the General Strike of 1926; working days lost in this year's first nine months topped 22 million, v. 12 million in the equivalent period last year. The combination of strikes?which have curbed exports?and inflation have made the pound once again the sickest of the major world currencies. Last June, Britain let the pound float, that is, allowed market forces to determine its price. Lately it has been not so much floating as sinking. Early this month...
Molière was a foe of zealotry, and an apostle of moderation. He regarded the extremist as society's sickest man. Each of his better plays is a kind of psychosocial profile of a man with a raging obsession, a feverishly disordered imagination. He may be a hypocrite, a miser, a misanthrope. In Molière's view, such a man is as mad as a man who claims to be Napoleon; the only cure is a cascade of laughter and the bracing tonic of common sense...
...whose recent articles in the New York Times have suggested the need for radical change. "The American people have not just been duped into a disaster," Wicker said. "There is something deeply wrong in our country and it is not merely the war in Vietnam. The war is the sickest fruit, but it is not all." Cheers. And raising the Nazi comparison, Wicker said, "We are spreading the holocaust in Indochina. Twenty-five years ago, I went to Auschwitz. There will never be in Indochina a glass case of the eyeglasses of those who have been butchered. We are incinerating...