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Shortly thereafter, Bender flew to Los Angeles to observe Taylor as he put the finishing touches on his new album, Mud Slide Slim. After the recording session they repaired to Manager Peter Asher's house for more talk into the small hours of the morning. "It was a little like Night Beat," recalls Bender, "sitting at a table with a tape recorder in the middle, cigarette smoke curling round a light bulb overhead...
...money is good, better than they could make anywhere else with their meager education, and that the poverty they come from is even more oppressive. So they stay, breaking their backs for $2.50 an hour, dragging 300-lb. sections of pipe and stacking endless 100-Ib. sacks of chemical mud...
...ARVN advance was almost glacial -slowed by twisting terrain, mud that sucked at tank treads, and fears of rushing headlong into what Vice Premier Nguyen Cao Ky described last week as "our Dien Bien Phu." Instead of a lightning strike, the ARVN invasion commander, Lieut. General Hoang Xuan Lam, employed a cautious leapfrogging technique designed to keep his troops within range of friendly artillery...
Stuck in the Mud. The economists identified several pressures that they feel will prevent the nation from recovering its economic health as rapidly as the President and his advisers hope. All expect a fairly long steel strike. Alan Greenspan's forecast of a $1,047 billion G.N.P. assumes that a walkout will shut down the blast furnaces for eight weeks this summer...
...slow down from an inflationary boom and may be equally sluggish in responding to expansionary Government policies-such as the $16.4 billion increase in federal spending, to $229.2 billion, that Nixon has budgeted for fiscal 1972. In Arthur Okun's view, the economy is "stuck in the mud," though it is "the mud along an ascending path." Said Okun: "I cannot see unemployment going down without an improvement in consumer confidence, and I cannot convince myself that there is going to be a strong improvement in consumer confidence unless I see some evidence that the unemployment rate is going...