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...most commodities, demanding more aggressive salesmanship. In the past six years the cover price of a rack-size book has jumped 77%, from an average of 930 to $1.65. The consumer price index for the same period rose 44.8%. Where will it end? Inflation is not likely to vanish and neither is the desire of publishers to secure bigger blockbusters. This is almost certain to cause new records in paperback auctions. Says Putnam's Webb: "There's no ceiling. God knows, there's no ceiling...
...higher birth rate, a stricter ban on intermarriage and campaigns against proselytizers from other faiths. But Reines, 52, doubts that any of these will work. The problem, he argues, is that American Jews simply do not accept the teachings of traditional Judaism. And without some religion, Jewry will vanish...
...does not need to fight Spinks for the money. He made nearly $60 million in purses?$3.5 million against Spinks, who got $320,000?and even Ali could not spend all that. Two divorces, bad investments, taxes, profligate generosity and a large, leeching entourage have made tens of millions vanish, but he has an estimated $2 million in cash and real estate. He has no need to stagger through humiliating defeats, as did Joe Louis, trading on memory and affection in order to survive...
...Frank Trippett vanish if he makes one more pun on the word...
...psychological structure to the impact of society on children is a constructive approach, the suggested solutions seem simplistic. All too often, the power of federal mandate seems to be invoked by the council as a magic cureall; wave the wand of legislation, they imply, and problems will vanish. Rather than looking ahead, the council appears to be advocating the same sort of reform that, in general, failed to solve the problems of society in the 1960s. They seem unlikely to do much better now for the beleaguered U.S. family...