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...single, however, that will probably attract the most attention and provoke the greatest response. If, as Rock Critic Greil Marcus has skeptically suggested, the recent spate of concerts like FarmAid bespeaks merely "a craze for charity," then Sun City represents a step toward outright activism. The accustomed structure for all such undertakings is present: participating musicians worked free, recording studios donated facilities, Van Zandt covered his own expenses, and Manhattan Records will donate all of the profits to the nonprofit Africa Fund...
While the story of Kerouac's life is a fascinating one, it is also much-told. While Kerouac is a meticulous documentary, it adds little to the spate of literary accounts of the author's life, many of which have been published recently. It is an opportunity sadly missed...
...spate of economic reports last week tended to support that view. Buoyed by a 7.1% jump in August purchases of U.S.-made cars, retail sales rose a strong 1.9% for the month. Much of the big auto gain reflected the low-cost financing that car- makers used to help clear dealers' lots. The Government also disclosed that industrial production rose a modest .3% in August, after remaining unchanged in July. The small increase showed that imports continue to cut deeply into American factory output...
...corporations, it is the mountain of debt that has been created by a spate of fierce merger wars. Consumers who have been seduced by easy credit know it as the flood of bills that arrive each month. For the Government, it is the largest and most menacing budget deficits in U.S. history. From whatever vantage point it is viewed, Americans have been on a frantic borrowing binge. And that vast accumulation of IOUs has become a frightening threat to economic well-being...
Amid this spate of unexpected appointments, another decision was announced in relatively muted fashion by both Moscow and Washington. President Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev will hold the first U.S.-Soviet summit meeting in six years, in Geneva on Nov. 19 and 20. Both sides were careful to limit the potential significance of the scheduled encounter...