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...latest stock-market plunge has dimmed President Nixon's reputation as a Wall Street prophet. On April 28, 1970, Nixon pronounced the time right for buying stocks; a year later, anyone who had sunk $10,000 into an average New York Stock Exchange share on his advice would have had a profit of $3,103. By last Friday's close, however, that paper profit had been just about cut in half...
...theater having sunk into the depths of filth and obscenity both in sound and sight, is the church to do likewise? Is there no Christianity left, no morals, no standards, no faith? Now are we back to the heathens and barbarians again? We certainly have crucified Our Lord a second time...
...unemployment was already running at 6.5% or 455,000 jobs, a higher rate than in the U.S. In Trudeau's words, Canada stands to be "more hurt than any other country" by Washington's trade moves. As a result, U.S.-Canadian relations have sunk to what may be their lowest point since Ottawa's Tories won a 1911 election on the slogan "No truck nor trade with the Yankees...
...this season, Wesleyan has sailed to a 4-0 record, its most surprising game a 2-0 victory over Yale. Last week the Cardinals sunk the Coast Guard...
...that the impetus of last year's comparatively fresh All in the Family, and the influx of top-drawer stars might lift the current season above the midden of the past. In fact, the networks' ten new comedy series-though their caricatures are slightly less grotesque-have sunk into the old predictability and sentimentality...