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...past the worst of its troubles began growing among professional observers in early summer, and has been greatly strengthened by the latest data. The Government's index of leading indicators-those measures that tend to move ahead of the general business trend -gained 1.6% in July, the sharpest increase since April 1969. Thanks to a drop in farm prices, the wholesale price index fell 0.2% in August, its first decline on a seasonally adjusted basis since April 1967. That would seem to promise a continuation of recent slowdowns in retail price rises. The consumer price index in both June...
...Their sharpest attack ever, though, was leveled last week at the ogre of a course that Jones conjured up for the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn., site of the 1970 U.S. Open. Jack Nicklaus took one turn around the rolling, twisting, 7,151-yd. layout-the longest par-72 course in U.S. Open history-and groused: "On eleven of the 18 holes, you can't even see the area where the drives land." Billy Casper complained that on many approach shots he needed radar to spot the flagsticks. Bert Greene, experiencing similar problems, decided to "shoot...
...plastic bottle. He dances the minuet in an age of rock. He knows all the steps, but his partners step on his toes and kick his shins." Of Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir: "If a creature from outer space met him, it would run in fear." But her sharpest arrows are saved for the Premier herself. In a column called "Madame Kingdom," she compared Mrs. Golda Meir to the reincarnation of the three furies rolled into one, "a dragon who pretends to be St. George." Golda was also Lady Macbeth, Medusa, a witch and Sophie Portnoy. When Moshe Dayan and Deputy...
...President's problems have taken one hell of a lot of his time." says a Labor Department aide. Shultz won his White House letter last summer during the intramural debate over the Nixon welfare program, which set off some of the sharpest infighting this Administration has seen. Liberals and conservatives differed heatedly over such questions as aid to the working poor and the concept of a guaranteed income. Nixon found the squabbling unseemly. He put John Ehrlichman, the top domestic policy sergeant in his palace guard, in charge of finding a compromise, and told Ehrlichman to enlist George Shultz...
...Slater's sharpest points is that, in time of partisanship and political transition, the moderate center becomes an embarrassing position. Instead of serving as a meeting ground for extremes, it turns into a no man's land, where men and ideas are caught in a withering crossfire. Yet it is precisely in a time of transition that all the qualities usually associated with the center−patience, good temper, a skeptical willingness to wait and see−become more valuable because they are so scarce...