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...preliminary report on retail sales for July showed them rising by an anemic .4%, indicating Americans are buying at a slower pace than in the spring, when sales were already lackluster. Administration planners had been counting on a consumer-spending spree to lead the economy to a 5% growth rate in the second half of the year...
...move followed publication of an official study concluding that slower speeds would do little to cut fuel consumption or air pollution. The latter point was especially sensitive. More than half of West Germany's forests are diseased or dying, largely be cause of poisonous emissions from factories and motor vehicles. Still, there is some hope for the trees. Government officials are discussing an 81 m.p.h. (130 k.p.h.) limit as one that their speed-loving countrymen might accept. With good reason: the Brussels-based European Commission may soon propose a European Community-wide limit, which West Germany would be under considerable...
Recognition at home was slower in coming. "We Canadians," Davies told TIME Ottawa Bureau Chief Peter Stoler, "are not enthusiasts about our own people." That is no longer true, at least in his case. What's Bred in the Bone has garnered raves from Canadian reviewers. Which seems fitting, since this novel, like most of his other fiction, draws heavily on the author's experiences in his native land. Elements of Francis Cornish's troubled youth come straight from Davies' memories: "As a child, I was beaten up by Catholic kids every day after school. As a newspaperman in that...
...paintings. She has brought together some 200 watercolors--almost a third of Homer's known output. It is a wholly delectable show, and it makes clear why watercolor, in its special freshness and immediacy, gave Homer access to moments of vision he did not have in the weightier, slower diction of oils...
...m.p.h. Speed of the wind at Powell's back, which was slower than the wind that helped American Tim Montgomery set the old record...