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Brezhnev at 70 looks in robust health, negating rumors over the past three years that he was nearing the end of the road because of cancer or leukemia, gout or heart trouble. He has given up smoking at the insistence of his doctors. He puts in a busy schedule. His one concession to age is that he now wears a hearing aid in public. There is no indication that he plans to retire voluntarily, which would be an unprecedented action for the top Soviet leader...
Tennessee Williams' favorite play doctor for his ailing plays is Tennessee Williams. He gives them scene transplants or amputates a character or administers dialogue transfusions, but somehow these measures never restore these dramas to robust health...
...compared with Holland's 8% or Britain's 14%, but it is much too high by historical standards in the U.S. Yet if the Carter Administration fails to take the lead in reviving the industrial world's laggard economy, the U.S. cannot hope to achieve the robust recovery the President-elect has promised...
Another casualty has been the euphoric mood that gripped the market in the early part of the year. Back then, stock prices rose on the crest of a robust 9%-plus economic growth rate. For a while, stock analysts were happily forecasting an "upside breakout" that would lead the market to a new alltime high above the January 1973 peak of 1051.70. Though business began to slow in April, economists in and out of Government remained convinced that it was just a temporary lull. Investors' expectations remained high, and the Dow hovered around 1000 through most of the summer...
...slowdown in the recovery has not been all that sharp. The economy's rate of expansion-which determines how rapidly jobs, sales and profits are created-swung from a robust 9.2% in the first three months of the year to a slower but still healthy 4.5% in the second quarter. Lately, though, a spate of figures coming out of Washington has suggested a further decline. The leading indicators dropped in August for the first time in a year and a half. Nonresidential-construction contracts hit their lowest level of the year...