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Panicky Rumors. Before the President's jawboning and the technical rally last week, the gloom over the long bear market had turned to despair in Wall Street. Panicky rumors flew-that several mutual funds were insolvent and dumping stocks, that several computer-leasing firms were about to go bankrupt. Goodbody & Co., a major brokerage house, had to deny that it was going out of business. Francis I. du Pont & Co. laid off 15% of its research staff; most of Shearson, Hammill's executives took pay cuts of as much...
Economy and Tact. As case history, Ariana's problem is not uncommon. She is unable to choose happiness over despair because her will has been paralyzed. In Wheelis' view, the cause is not only Craig's outrages but the subtly pervasive spirit of the age. Behaviorists, technophiles and their parrots in the social sciences have overemphasized the lock step of instinct at the expense of free will. For many people, the result is a form of fatalism that destroys belief in the possibility of change...
...Moreno soon begins to despair of both Bello's repressive measures and the workability of revolution in general. He asks a risky, rhetorical question of a foreign journalist: "Is it our fate to jump from the Wall Street pot into the Communist fire?", and he winds up forced to beg for refuge in a neutral embassy...
Representative H. James Shea (D,-Newton), who pioneered the landmark bill in the State Legislature challenging the constitutionality of the Vietnam War, took his own life early Saturday morning because of his reported overwork and despair with the continuing conflict in Indochina...
...have only to catch the despair of Yeats's poem The Circus Animals' Desertion. on the awful burden and awful chance of self-delusion in caring for men's words...