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Another western for swingers. Doc, Frank Perry's new film from a screen play by Columnist Pete Ham ill, is sup posed to pierce "the western myth's special heart of darkness."It covers all the familiar territory, right down to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. But this time Holliday is not a tubercular dentist from the East turned gunslinger, he is an itinerant murderer whose morals are only slightly stronger than his lungs. Kate Elder is a morose, scurvy hooker...
...addition, Eckstein's group also examined the effects of the hy pothetical six-or twelve-week strikes on industries that are major sup pliers to the auto companies. The figures listed below indicate the declines that those industries would be expected to sustain in fourth-quarter profits and production...
...protect missionaries who were being put to death by the Vietnamese Emperor for teaching Christianity. Soon the French objective was to colonize rather than Christianize, and by 1883 Paris had established a "protectorate" in Cambodia and occupied all of Viet Nam; in 1899, it placed a résident supérieur in Vientiane. Economically, the French were unabashed parasites. As one report of the time put it: "Colonial production must be limited to supplying the mother country with raw materials...
...plans. Some would adjust exchange rates annually, some quarterly, some monthly. Other versions would make adjustments optional and not automatic-that is, at the discretion of each government. All advocates agree that it is essential to make the parity changes frequent but small-perhaps 1% to 2% yearly. Sup porters believe that, under such a system, the value of a country's currency would reflect the realities of its balance of payments position and the amount of its inflation. The crawling peg would also avoid sharp devaluations and revaluations. It would thus discourage currency speculation because the gains that...
Leon Mann, a social psychologist at Harvard, and K. F. Taylor of the University of Melbourne, report in the Jour nal of Personality and Social Psychology that people in lines are possessed of a curious sixth sense that subconsciously spots the "critical point" when the sup ply of tickets will give out. Yet instead of giving up and going home, late comers succumb to an ersatz optimism and delude themselves into thinking that the line is shorter than it really...