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After a concerted outcry from Congress, Agnew's Secret Service detail and chauffeured limousine were withdrawn in February, and he has been spotted in recent weeks walking along Northwest Washington's Jackson Place, heading to and from his office. He is nearly always grim-visaged, facing forward and alone. Few of his once close associates have seen much of him lately, though Agnew continues to play an occasional golf or tennis match at two suburban Washington clubs. Friends say he is devoting much of his time to the novel he is writing for Playboy Press. There...
...Meir followed her announcement to the party with a formal resignation speech before the Knesset. The modernistic chamber was filled to capacity as she trudged to the podium. The mood of the meeting was even more grim than expected: that morning, Palestinian guerrillas had sneaked across Israel's border from Lebanon to carry out a massacre at Qiryat Shemona in which 18 people were killed (see following story). The raid, Mrs. Meir said, "surpasses in its barbarity all that has gone before." She followed up an account of the assault with an explanation of her decision to resign...
...make a profit as yields dropped and prices rose. Instead, as soaring short-term rates attracted ever more investors, yields on bonds, too, have had to be boosted substantially-and even then have not been high enough in some cases to attract buyers. The situation has become so grim that one of Wall Street's most venerable investment bankers, Lehman Bros., announced last month that it would sharply reduce its bond underwritings...
...right stretch endless blocks of red-brick rowhouses, each indistinguishable from the next. Old Chevrolets and new Mustangs are parked along the grim treeless streets. Each house has a small grass backyard. The train passes through tracts of brick warehouses and lots of empty freight trucks. The towering buildings of downtown Baltimore fade in the distance. Soon the metal scrapyards and old industrial offices thin out, and pastureland marked by barns and silos rolls by. A horse stands blank-faced behind a wooden fence. Rows of trailer homes extend to the edge of the train tracks. An elderly woman...
...Haven a hoarse voice intones, "All off for Hartford, Springfield, and points north." A billboard in the grim station urges its readers to buy TV Guide. Concrete storage vats rise from the roof of the Interstate Container Corporation. A woman dressed in black slacks and wearing a felt hat walks her dog on a residential street. She watches as a burly man in a light T-shirt walks slowly on the other side of the street and enters a liquor store. She shakes her head with contempt and pulls her dog by the leash. "Come now, Pearl, we must move...