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Reagan holds that the American way of life is at a historic brink and the nation needs a leader who can demand sacrifice. His followers and friends tell him furiously his is the only missionary voice that can make it happen. He has come to believe them, reluctantly. Heading back home by plane a couple of weeks ago he sounded quite unlike a missionary...
ITALY, which only last year seemed to be on the brink of collapse, is haltingly making its way back. Its output this year will probably show a decline of 3%. Industrial production is running 10% or more below a year ago, and the country's factories are operating at less than 70% of capacity. Unemployment now stands at 1.1 million and could go as high as 1.7 million next year. That is the price the country has had to pay to get down its ruinous rate of inflation -which has fallen from 24% last year to 9.8% in September...
ANTONIA BRICO, 73, explains, "I felt I'd never forgive myself if I didn't try." Forty years ago, Brico seemed to be on the brink of a brilliant career. In 1930 she became the first woman to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic. Albert Schweitzer taught...
...York City lingers on the brink of default, President Ford last week reconfirmed the notion that he's more committed to his own political future and to this country's corporations and to the few men who run them than to the people as a whole...
...since 1969, denied Government subsidy a year ago and seemingly on the brink of bankruptcy, Pan American World Airways last week served notice that forecasts of its demise have been premature. The airline reported a third-quarter profit of $42.1 million, v. a $500,000 loss during the same period of 1974. The turnaround is especially remarkable because it conies at a time when other airlines are in deep trouble: Eastern last week reported a huge third-quarter deficit (see following story), and TWA estimated it will lose $100 million during...