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...great equalizer. It was as inevitable as taxes, and awesome in its finality. Preparation for dying and what lay beyond preoccupied man and defined civilizations. But building pyramids, lighting eternal flames, and performing rituals, no matter how extravagant, could never alter an individual tragedy or the grim common destiny. One could resist death for a while, and with a little luck, choose where and when. But with few delays or complications, death always got its man. And when you were dead, you were dead. Those were the good old days...
Every day last week the electricity went off until sundown, stilling the whirling fans and air conditioners in the breathless heat. Grim-faced American officials shuttled in and out of the palace of Cambodian President Lon Nol. Battle reports proved contradictory and inconclusive. The British, Australians and Japanese evacuated their women and children. Beside the pool of the Hotel Le Phnom (the former Royal), reporters talked of the possibility of a guerrilla attack on the airport, the television station or some other suitable target to coincide with the Buddhist New Year's holiday. This was Phnom-Penh under siege...
...long, of course. When a usual dose (one snort into each nostril) of cocaine wears off in about an hour, the user may have a hangover of depression. There are medical and legal hazards as well; possession of cocaine is a felony. These grim facts have not stopped some enclaves of the bored and beautiful set from making the inhaling of coke a status cult. Since cocaine for a dozen people can cost as much as $600, depending on the quality and scarcity of the drug, the hostess of that recent East Side party was showing her friends that...
Retail prices in February spun up by .8%-a 22-year record that amounts to a grim 9.6% inflation rate on an annual basis. Herbert Stein, the usually Panglossian chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, conceded: "The news on prices has been...
...selling off gilt-edged securities. The company was General Motors, whose annual sales would constitute a gross national product bigger than that of, say, Switzerland or South Africa if it were a country instead of the largest business corporation on earth. When the U.A.W. struck GM for two grim months in 1970, the U.S. economy nearly stopped dead in its tracks...