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...statue moves. Queen Hermione kisses Leontes, then embraces Perdita. Thus far, the sentiments seem as bogus as the stage mechanism. In answer to the general call for "light libations," all the company extras stream onstage from different directions, eagerly awaiting their cue before launching on a final dance-spree...
...relatively quiet phase, the loudest boom in South Viet Nam these days is coming not from gunfire but from the economy. Where most nations at war-including North Viet Nam-endure rationing and self-denial, the South has spent the last few years on a prolonged shopping spree. There are no meatless Wednesdays, no food queues, few shortages of any kind. Shiny new appliances, from electric rice cookers to transistor radios, occupy conspicuous nooks even in the homes of unskilled laborers. Television antennas rise everywhere, even over tin-roofed huts. Saigon's greenery has suffered less damage from Communist...
...Coney Island's Mermaid Avenue, New York City police break up a thriving sidewalk traffic in heroin. The pushers: three boys, aged 15, 13 and 11, whose sales averaged $900 a week. The daughter of a Manhattan psychiatrist, located at the far end of a drug spree, boasts to newsmen: "I take hash, pot, LSD, heroin, speed-anything I can get." She is twelve. In Hollywood, a boy of eleven who has been pushing "ups" (amphetamine and methedrine pills) and "downs" (barbiturates, tranquilizers) since he was nine, is found out by his parents and locked in his bedroom. Through...
...past years have been rewarded, while those who pursued prudence have been punished. The businessman who raised his prices in recent years lost few if any customers but increased his profits; the businessman who did not raise prices saw his earnings drop. The consumer who borrowed for a spending spree is paying off his debt in cheapened dollars; the consumer who saved instead is holding dollars that have depreciated. Today most economists believe that inflationary expectations can be conquered by a mild downturn in business. At a time of no growth, they argue, businessmen who hiked prices would lose markets...
...M.I.T. goal in the second half. The Engineer defensive backs tired noticeably as the game progressed, but the Harvard attackers seemed stronger each minute. Pagagianis and Mossavar-Rahmani tallied in the third quarter, and David Lee and Ron Padmore scored in the final period. Papagianis went on another scoring spree in the final minutes of the game and claimed his third and fourth goals...