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British Journalist Harold Evans is both, as Good Times, Bad Times entertainingly proves. His tale has just about everything required by the genre of self-vindication: a spurned teller, shifting affections, the whiff of conspiracy, and a villain who grows ever more interesting as the recital of his sins progresses...
...economy's boisterous recovery has put shoppers in the mood to buy the best and the brightest, from $600 home computers to $300 cashmere bathrobes. At Manhattan's Bonwit Teller, customers have already taken home 2,300 pairs of mink earmuffs at $85 each. According to Lien Dang, a Neiman-Marcus sales clerk in Houston, consumers want "something wild, something different, something out of this world...
Amuzzle we'll send to wherever the Band is; A grandfather clock to time-teller Dave Landes; Of the Indy's Dave Finegold the stockings we'll stuff With a typewriter ribbon in case things get tough. The wags at the 'Poon get a joke book to read Before their next issue; it's just what they need. Their Sackbut-that-was should be sure not to bungle; A Bells on the stage is worth ten in the Jungle...
...perhaps not in the way Teller imagines. Many other weapons scientists, arms-control experts and Congressmen in both parties see a historic opportunity slipping away: the chance to avoid an arms race in space. Opponents of the space-based defensive system argue that its extraordinarily high cost would be the least of its disadvantages. They insist that the technical obstacles are practically insurmountable and that building such weapons could encourage a panicky, preemptive nuclear attack by the Soviets...
...initially provided "a certain psychological deterrent," but ultimately proved useless. Once a robbery is under way, says Roberto Salgado, director of the Brazilian Association of Guard and Security Companies, "most banks instruct the guards not to shoot where there's a chance of losing a customer or a teller." Perhaps as a result, guards often find themselves forced at gunpoint to turn over their arms to the robbers, who have harvested hundreds of weapons so far this year...