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MUCH of Western Europe has been gripped this fall by the sudden fear of a recession. West Germany's Council of Economic Advisers, for example, last week reached the gloomy conclusion that the German economy, the Continent's most powerful, will sink to a growth rate of only 3% in 1971 -about half the increase registered last year-and predicted that still worse times were ahead for 1972. In large part because of President Nixon's defense of the dollar, which has made U.S. goods more competitive abroad and foreign-made goods more expensive...
...year-old heroine Lucia refuses to let grownups run and ruin her life. When her parents fight, and Lucia is sent to live with a saurian grandmother in Virginia, she battles the old monster to a standstill. "You're a big mean bug," she screams, "and I sink your mean mud head about ten million feet into the ground!" Then with all her force she struggles to reconstitute the family she needs...
...binds random events together to make lives, he regards with wonder his wife, his stepchildren, his potted palm, his parents and even his ineffectual sperm (under his doctor's microscope they wriggle torpidly, like sunbathers). "Singer's wife is washing Singer's socks in the kitchen sink and weeping prodigally," a fairly typical episode begins. "Singer watches . . . He pays attention to the great, submerged tangle of black socks, mid-calf length; his wife's red, vehement face; her tears dropping at intervals into the murky water. He thinks: My socks are washed in her tears. What...
...some 5,000 Boeing employees, the company's new directions have already satisfied an important social need. After the collapse of the SST project, Boeing officials predicted that Seattle employment would sink to 29,500 by year's end. Instead, thanks primarily to early successes in its socially oriented experiments, Boeing plans to end 1971 with a work force...
...friend of mine was filming the Kramer proceedings for one of his Brandeis film courses. At times, he'd lower the sound equipment he was holding to fill in details (with snickering nonchalance), of Kramer's own productions. I urged Pete to sink his film in a time capsule, so that future generations will know that once there were filmmakers who didn't know much about film, weren't interested in taking stands on social issues, but felt very committed to people. If, that is, those generations--after years of Kramer-like brainpickling--will be able to tell the difference...