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...nation's economy is in fact a mixture that varies not only by industry but by region (see map). A business slowdown has been most evident in the long-established industrial regions, notably the great northern tier from New York to Wisconsin, where half the nation's budget for plant and equipment is spent...
...riot himself. But under the guiding hand of beefy, reform-minded Warden Johnson, 44, Crump gradually began to come round. He read voraciously, boned up on law, philosophy, sociology and the Bible (he is a convert to Catholicism). Today Paul Crump reigns as "barn boss" of a cell-block tier housing sick and problem convicts, works long hours administering to their needs. In his tiny cell, cluttered with books and manuscripts, he writes poetry, spices his correspondence with quotes from Nietzsche and William Blake. He has just completed his first novel, Burn, Killer, Burn, to be published, at his request...
...stage and auditorium, and equipped, of course, with television monitors so that the sponsor will feel right at home. It will also be mercifully soundproofed so that the sponsor may flick on his own commercials without disturbing the audience below. Facing the sponsor's booth is a tier of three picture-windowed control rooms on the other side of the hall. One is for recording, one is for radio, and one is for television...
Soupy Sales is a short-haired fellow with a kumquat nose, a moron-the-merrier expression, a crushed stovepipe hat, buttoned collar and huge bow tie. His métier is sick slapstick. He gets laughs by biting off a neighbor's hangnail or hitting an old lady with a custard pie-not in the face, but up under her arm, as if the pie were a small bucket...
...attention to herself by needling Presidents until Dwight Eisenhower, by opening the presidential press conference to direct quotation and requiring reporters to identify themselves, gave her an irresistible chance for self-promotion. After the conference moved into the big audience medium of TV, Sarah found her true métier...