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...This grim streak started with the NCAA basketball playoffs this winter. Harpo just wouldn't give up when he was ahead. That's the thing about betting, no one ever knows when to give up. How would bookies stay in business otherwise? Well, in the quarter finals Harpo went out and bet a bundle on North Carolina, UNC-Charlotte, and for good measure, Nevada-Las Vegas. He had this strange feeling it would be a Carolina spring. The weekend came and went, his teams all won, and Harpo was a rich man. So did he quit? Do lemmings stop drowning...
...grim irony that the very experience that makes Kissinger so attractive to university administrators seeking big names for their faculties brought death and destruction to millions of people around the world, teaching them to hate and fear the U.S. Among other things, Kissinger can be held responsible for the expansion of the Indochina War into Cambodia in 1970, the Christmas carpet bombing of Vietnam in 1972 and the CIA-supported coup in Chile...
...first-time house buyers. But an equally important reason for the home-buying surge is a highly paradoxical one: rocketing housing inflation that threatens to turn the old joke "If you had to buy today the house you're living in, you couldn't afford it" into grim reality. Since 1970, according to a recent joint study by Harvard University and M.I.T., the price of new houses has climbed twice as fast as family incomes. The cost of maintaining a home (insurance, heating, property taxes) has risen still more. If present trends continue, the average new home, which...
According to this thesis, "Hitler's was unquestionably the authority behind the expulsion [of the Jews]; on whose initiative the grim procedures at the terminal stations of this miserable exodus were adopted, is arguable." Irving believes that Heinrich Himmler und the SS "pulled the wool over Hitler's eyes," keeping him in ignorance even while the gas chambers were working at capacity. It is also possible, the author argues, that the Führer possessed a familiar characteristic of heads of state-a conscious desire "not to know", what in a later era was called deniability...
...soured and television sets are on the blink. Protectionists are demanding higher tariffs to help these and other American products. Since 1968 foreign shoe manufacturers have increased their share of the U.S. market from 22% to 46%; during that time, 300 American shoe factories have closed, with the grim loss of 70,000 jobs. Foreign color-TV sets-made mostly in Japan, Taiwan and Korea -accounted for 18% of U.S. sales in 1975; they surged to 42% last year. With sugar imports pushing the price down to 120 per lb., domestic producers claim they cannot cover costs...