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...system of constitutional democracy as a model for their countries. Nearly two-thirds said the U.S. social-welfare system is inadequate. Fully 85% thought Americans were unsympathetic to foreign revolutionary governments. More than half scorned U.S. trade policy and foreign investment as being motivated chiefly by self-interest. A slight majority rated the U.S. as altruistic only in combatting pollution of the seas and feeding the hungry...
...world. So last week the Government gave up even trying. The Commerce Department did report on various classes of transactions for the first quarter. Its figures showed a swing in merchandise trade from a $2.2 billion surplus in the fourth quarter to a $1.6 billion deficit, caused by a slight drop in exports, an 11% rise in imports and an increase in capital flowing out of the country. But the department made no attempt to add up the pieces and calculate an overall deficit or surplus...
...newsroom on the third floor of the 14-story Times building is a block long, Rosenthal told me nonchalantly the bright May morning we met there. The M.E. made a slight sweeping motion with his hand, nonchalantly emphasizing the words "block long." That was the extent of my tour. There was little time for Rosenthal to escort a tourist through the one-and-one third acres of grey metal desks, typewriters, telephones and teletypes...
...late as January, 12.2% of all stocks on the New York and American exchanges were selling for less than five times earnings. Now only 9% are-a slight improvement. But the proportion of stocks selling for more than 20 times earnings has actually dropped since January, from 18.2% to 16.7%. The 30 Dow Jones industrials now sell at an average P/E of 13.1, up from 12.9 at the start of the year but well below the 1971 high...
Stanley Elkin is one of the perennial bridesmaids of American fiction. Part of the problem is that the styles Elkin employs are beginning to show their age. His prose is creased by the crow's-feet of '50s black humor, it shows the slight stoop of Jewish realism and the weird droop of the surreal as well. There is no denying, though, that when Elkin puts them together-as he did in Boswell, A Bad Man, The Dick Gibson Show and now The Franchiser-the results are fresh...