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What does worry analysts is a surprising change in the leadership of the recovery. In June and July, the rally was led by established blue chips. But lately the market has shown renewed symptoms of speculative fever. As a result, the list of the biggest percentage gainers since May is dominated by the names of Indonesian and Canadian oil producers, mobile-home builders and unclassifiable "special situation" issues (see box). To some Wall Streeters, this development suggests nothing so much as a case of mass amnesia among individual and institutional investors who, they fear, have forgotten that speculative issues took...
...July, twelve-year-old Venus Yates lay in Los Angeles County General Hospital under intensive care for rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic fever and a tumor on her spine. Against the hospital's wishes, Venus' parents took her on a stretcher to one of Kuhlman's monthly services in the Shrine Auditorium. As the service neared its end, Venus' mother suddenly said, "You're cured!" Medical tests for the ailments now prove entirely negative...
Apart from its local merchants, who are not exactly ecstatic Bowie (pop. 40,000) is genuinely convinced that the fever of Earth Day can burn all year. Some people in the container industry agree. Reynolds Metals Co., for example, is offering $200 a ton for discarded aluminum cans in the Los Angeles and Miami areas, and the Glass Container Manufacturers Institute, which represents most of the country's major glassmakers, has launched a nationwide campaign to buy back discarded bottles at a penny a pound...
...attack him for what he has claimed to be. If his disinclination to explore why men act - or more often don't act - places him outside the contemporary novel, no contemporary has written more knowledgeably about how men act. The guises and disguises of ambition, the glint of fever in the eye when a man is going for the Big Apple, the way a New Man on the make can use the old steppingstones (Cambridge common room, St. James's club) - all this Snow knows with firsthand certainty. For Snow, after all, is one of those who made...
Homicidal Eve. Things happen: Maria aborts another man's child, tries to find the vanished Nevada hamlet where she grew up, is a passive accomplice in a friend's suicide. Mostly, though, the book is a fever chart of psychic pain. Maria cries constantly. She drives the freeways maniacally. She alternately ignores friends or calls them in the middle of the night. All of what Robert Lowell called "the kingdom of the mad"-its hackneyed speech, its homicidal eye-is here. Maria's private hell is constantly invaded by real-life demons of the show business world...