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...Nick's hero(es) engage(s) in are of the drugs-and-bizarre relationships variety, but plus ca change -of the two main girls in our little boy's life, he meets one at his St. Paul's commencement and another at a Fly Club garden party. (A dramatic peak-such as it is-in the book comes when Flo tells Hal she can't afford to go skiing with him in Austria over Christmas, but will probably end up just going skiing with her family in Vermont. "But I'll manage," she promises...
...said at the time that McCarthy was the first to discover how to use the mass media for personal advancement. I am afraid this is too large a claim, but certainly he raised the practice momentarily to a new peak of effectiveness. The organs of public opinion gave him enormous coverage for years and thus contributed to build his reputation...
...many shattered windows in nearby buildings are now boarded up that one high administration official ruefully calls the institution "Old Plywood U." Nevertheless, the administrators ironically find comfort in the bombing. They believe that it is the peak of long years of frustration that began with the Dow Chemical demonstrations in 1967. The revulsion it will cause among students and faculty, they think, may help reforge understanding between them...
...Golden West Airlines, a regional carrier, only to sell it a year later for a mere $100,000 after suffering a $1,800,000 operating loss. Partly because of such mishaps, the price of I.C.C. shares on the American Stock Exchange has dropped from a 1968 peak of 50 7/8 to 10¼ last week...
...I.O.S. announced that the loan-along with Cornfeld's return to the I.O.S. executive committee-"paves the way for an early revitalization of the company's affairs." That may be quite a challenge. I.O.S.'s sales force has shrunk to 6,000 from a peak of 15,000, and in the first half of 1970 the company lost $26 million...