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...late rally by the Detroit Pistons, the Bucks registered their 19th victory in a row, to set a new National Basketball Association record for consecutive wins. After his team bounded jubilantly into the locker room. Coach Larry Costello locked the door until everyone had a chance to simmer down. Then he announced grandly: "Let the press in!" In they came-three reporters and a stray autograph hound. "No TV cameras, nothing!" Costello fairly shouted in dismay. "If the Knicks had set this record, the news would be in Tokyo already...
...appointment plunged the Vatican and the Dutch church into confrontation once again, just as it appeared that relations were beginning to simmer down after last year's clash over the celibacy issue. Rotterdam liberals were furious that Paul had bypassed three candidates sent to him by their diocesan chapter, the diocese's most important advisory council. By custom, a Dutch bishop is usually selected from such a council's nominees; if none is acceptable to Rome, the chapter is asked for another list. But the Vatican did not request...
...made good spaghetti. "How long do you cook it?" asked a reporter. "A long time," said the First Lady. Noting the black looks at the thought of a White House full of pasty pasta, Pat made a remarkable recovery. "I cook my meat sauce a long time-I simmer it," she explained. "But the spaghetti: eight minutes." Smiles. Al dente...
...mandatory controls, no nasty squabbles between the White House and business or labor leaders, no interference at all with the free market. Instead, Government would simply balance its budget and pump less money into the banking system. As funds became scarcer in the private economy, business would simmer down and so, too, would prices. For a few "awkward months," predicted Nixon's economists, the nation would suffer mild "slowing pains" of high interest rates, little growth in production, some drop in profits and a moderate rise in unemployment. Eventually, inflationary pressure would be wrung out of the economy and normal...
...particular happening." Business, he says, would revive slowly, inflation would simmer down very gradually, and unemployment might stay uncomfortably high. It is also possible that the U.S. economy could get itself into a "stop-go" cycle such as Britain suffered through for many years. Washington would apply brakes to the economy, release them when a recession threatened, find that the business revival had set off a new burst of inflation, and slam on the brakes again...