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Last year the A/2 Hong Kong strain erupted in the U.S., causing widespread absenteeism in schools, offices and factories. Now a new bug called the London flu-because it was first isolated as a distinct strain there last year-is causing the familiar sniffles, coughing, sore throat, headache and fever in many parts...
...gloomy prediction? It looks more like the timely cooling of a fever. The 1972 boom was fueled largely by easier-than-expected credit. If it were to continue unabated for another year, overbuilding might set the stage for a severe slump in 1974. Nationwide, home and apartment vacancies are still relatively low, but 1972 nevertheless brought the first signs of an emerging glut in some areas where housing demand had appeared insatiable. Starts in California have run well ahead of population increases for the past two years. Apartments are in oversupply in Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, Denver and Minneapolis...
...written a book. A question arises. Is Professor Wolf for vampirism or against it? The answer remains murky. For what the professor has done is to invent a scholarly equivalent of the celebrated New Journalism, whose practitioners take their own temperatures every second paragraph and print the resultant fever charts as reportage...
...years when the conflict was mostly military, "the light at the end of the tunnel" became a ghastly cliche of hope aroused and dashed over and over again. Now that the conflict is largely diplomatic, is the light at the end of the conference table becoming equally elusive? The fever chart tracing U.S. expectations of success in Viet Nam, it has been said, has a recurrent sawtooth shape: an accelerating rise of optimism just before an abrupt decline...
...last great British monarch presiding over the largest empire in history. Her personality-dominated by Albert-affected nearly all the great events of the 19th century, from the revolutions of 1848 to Britain's brave bungling in the Crimea. But when Albert died in 1861-of typhoid fever, from the fetid drains of Windsor Castle-she was left in an almost unimaginable isolation. "The words on all lips," runs the last sentence of Woodham-Smith's book, "the feelings in all hearts were: 'What is going to happen now to the poor Queen?'" One waits...