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...machine's favorite propaganda weapons. A few disc jockeys liked what they heard and began playing the record. Eventually people were talking about the girl with the willowy voice, so supple that she would wrap it around a note, bend it, put a spin on it, and then zoom up or down a couple of octaves. Her single Poetry Man hit the top ten on the charts, and now square-shaped, frizz-topped Phoebe Snow has walked off with a Rocky for Best New Female Vocalist given at Don Kirshner's Rock Music Awards...
...would shave imports by only about 8% (to 13.3 million bbl. daily) if oil stayed at $10.80. Yet lower prices would vastly increase its reliance on foreign oil. At $7.20, Europe's oil imports would rise another 21%, to 16.7 million bbl. daily; at $3.60, they would zoom by 71% to 23.8 million...
...aircraft carries twice the payload and takes off in half the runway space that the B-52 needs, and it flies faster at high altitudes, reaching twice the speed of sound. With greater maneuverability and retractable wings, it is designed to zoom in under enemy radar scans and attack at treetop level while still flying at nearly supersonic speed...
...Udaysah, the Lebanese road parallels an Israeli road across the barbed-wire border. Israeli automobiles zoom along past rich orchards and a soldier grins and waves. Rashaya Fukhar is slightly different from other villages in the Arqub. For one thing, most of its inhabitants are Christian. For another, every structure in the village is made of stone, which can save lives. Almost every house has doors off hinges, cracked walls or damaged roofs; some have been totally destroyed. Two months ago, a villager named Elias Gibran was caught in the fields during an air raid and killed. He was Rashaya...
Slight Ease? The chief cause of the zoom in interest rates has been the Federal Reserve Board's parsimonious policy. The board has held the growth of the nation's money supply to an annual rate of less than 5%-nowhere near enough to meet the credit demands of an inflationary econ, omy. Now there are some signs I that the board, realizing the shaky state of business, is becoming a trifle more generous; at minimum, it has stopped twisting the money tourniquet ever tighter. That small bit of good news was enough to touch off a Friday...