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...decline was due partly to a large seasonal adjustment for the annual flood of June graduates. White House economists are not sure why relatively few of them are listed as unemployed this year. "They must be out working for McGovern," quipped a top Administration official. In a more serious vein, IBM Chief Economist David Grove, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists says: "The economy is improving enough to develop an upward momentum of its own, one that is capable of withstanding adverse news." Wholesale prices in June rose a discouragingly large one-half percentage point...
...humor of George S. Kaufman was very much in that laconic, debunking vein. In fact, Kaufman, a lanky ribbon salesman from Pittsburgh who became the most successful Broadway playwright of his time, attended costume balls as the 16th President. In later years, possibly touchy about being mistaken for Raymond Massey, he remarked that the actor would not be satisfied until he was assassinated...
...field. They started working in the campaign in October 1971, on the recommendation of McGovern's Florida campaign manager. Their voter interviewing was a major factor in McGovern's decision to move away from a one-issue Viet Nam stance and to begin working the rich vein of voter discontent over inflation and taxes. They also warned him early that the electorate preferred straight talk to rhetoric this year and was fed up with slick media campaigns. That advice, which happily coincided both with McGovern's personality and his pocketbook, has paid off handsomely...
...Varicose veins, those bulging, discolored blood vessels that cause cosmetic consternation in women and discomfort for both sexes, probably have a variety of causes. Habitual standing in place for long periods is one. Can sitting in chairs be another? So theorizes Dr. Colin Alexander of New Zealand's Auckland Medical School. Alexander's argument in the Lancet owes as much to geography as it does to anatomy. Varicose veins, he points out, are rare among the Japanese and other Eastern peoples who generally sit on the floor or the ground. But the condition is common among Westerners...
...power with remarkable zest and facility. The effects achieved are so powerful--and the similarities between them are so striking--that it is difficult to believe that the directors are not trying to say exactly what they seem to be saying. They think they have struck a rich vein of ore buried in the American psyche, and they intend to mine it for all they...