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King's compromises were not capitulations, but sane and sound recognition of the way progress historically has been wrung from the American system. He may have failed to reach his ultimate goal. But by serving as the catalyst in the formation of a truly national civil rights movement, he laid the groundwork for its possible success in the future...
...part to good genes ?he looks more like Yossarian than he does like Arkin. In part it is due to a virtuoso player entering his richest period. But in the main it is due to the quirky talent of Director Mike Nichols, whose previous successes have been wrung largely from the bland and facile. It is as if Neil Simon were to turn out Endgame or Peter Sellers to turn into Falstaff...
...economy, business would simmer down and so, too, would prices. For a few "awkward months," predicted Nixon's economists, the nation would suffer mild "slowing pains" of high interest rates, little growth in production, some drop in profits and a moderate rise in unemployment. Eventually, inflationary pressure would be wrung out of the economy and normal expansion of output and hiring could resume...
...turned into more persistent "cost-push inflation." Excess demand at last has been wrung out of the economy, he believes, but prices are being pushed up now by excessive union wage demands. In a sense, this means past inflation is causing present inflation; union men are angry that past price increases have eaten up their previous pay gains, and they are pressing for extraordinary boosts to catch up and protect themselves against still more price increases in the future...
Since there is a limit to the money that can be wrung from oil, the government is giving increased attention to the transformation of the southwestern province of Khuzestan into a huge agricultural-industrial complex. In addition, great copper deposits are being mined in the Kerman area of central Iran. A dozen major dams are under construction around the country...