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...those who cannot manage, the end of life, or at least of life as most people would want to live it, can be an agony. About a million, or 5%, of the nation's elderly already live in nursing homes, too many of which are grim warrens for the unwanted. Tragically, the population of the nursing homes is growing. But so, too, is the public's concern over the plight of the old. Americans have yet to come up with the answers, but more and more are at least asking themselves the question that most must face sooner...
...financial plight of Mayor Abraham Beame's New York City is so grim that even far-out jokes have a certain plausibility. Somehow, before the end of the fiscal year on June 30, the city must raise a staggering $1 billion to meet its payroll and operating expenses and pay off its notes and bonds. Yet so shaky is its credit that it may not be able to raise the money-with the prospect of skipping payday for city employees or even defaulting on its obligations. The one fleeting hope for a painless solution came crashing down last week...
...food and his wife, a pert sculptress named Julia (Marlene Jobert)- although he reserves the right to act wounded when his guest takes him up on all three. Thomas and Julia are enchanted with David's brooding tales of terror, and they are persuaded of his veracity when grim-looking fellows with guns start hanging around...
...most of his twelve-year steward ship of Labor, Wilson has tried to straddle the ideological divide within the party and has particularly tried to avoid any kind of confrontation with the trade unions. In recent weeks, however, Britain's grim, almost apocalyptic economic situation (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) has forced him to risk their disfavor. When Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey presented his tightfisted budget in the Commons last month, he candidly blamed Britain's briskly accelerating 25% inflation on union wage-increase settlements, which are now averaging 30% annually...
...confident, however, that the free traders will continue to win. At the end of May, the 24-member Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development will meet in Paris to renew a free-trade pledge, but Britain's vote, at least, is in doubt. The grim facts of recession can overwhelm the best of intentions, as Australia has already proved. After Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's Labor government took office in 1972, it fulfilled an election pledge for tariff reform by slashing levies 25% across the board. As late as last December, Whitlam was telling Europeans that "a retreat...