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...lady approaches him on the street and exhorts him: "GET OUT OF WASHINGTON! It's no place for a young man!" He watches a bunch of blacks mug a white man and woman in a seemingly random, senseless fashion. His more sober-minded comrades, living for "the Revolution," mechanize LNS and then viciously torture his friends to recover the equipment Mungo's friends have stolen in their big caper. He discovers that the Movement's members can be more than just disagreeable. Writing of his meeting with Eldridge Cleaver in his pre-Algerian days, he says: "He [Cleaver] told...
...copying machine ever churning out press releases, the coveys of attractive, midiskirted female assistants. He spoke endlessly in schools and public halls, garnering crowds of 2,000 and more-something unheard of in Bordeaux elections. As usual, he attracted hordes of newsmen complete with television lights and cameras. The sober daily Le Monde had a phrase for it: pop politique...
...week. And all because wife Elizabeth bet her convivial Welshman that he couldn't abstain for three months. A trimmer Burton has not only won the wager (a kiss or something; he forgets), but has stretched his dry period to nearly six months. Lest his public misunderstand his sober ways, Burton begged his interviewer: "Please don't make me out to be against alcohol. I'll get all sorts of letters from the temperance people, and I certainly don't want to encourage their cause. I owe a lot to booze...
Prosperity and rising profits then inspired a strong demand for stocks, but the supply was limited. Prices went through the roof. "The enormous rise," insists Stein, "had less to do with a sober assessment of a company's performance than with the sheer shortage of stock. People were not buying companies; they were buying the market." That situation is not likely to recur, because today's profits are modest, corporate debt is high and interest rates are steep. The switch away from debt issues and into equity issues has already begun. Last year U.S. companies put out a record dollar...
Modern Techniques. Kitman is the kind of rabid comic who would buy a 1911 Chinese railway bond and then try to call up Chairman Mao to find out how the investment has been doing lately. He decided to look behind the sober smoke screen of Washington's meticulously kept accounts. In a fiendish demonstration of the power of scholarship, he proves, almost convincingly, that the father of his country was also the founder of modern expense-account living...