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Even before the year began, stocks had taken one of their worst skids in history. Pressured by the Arab oil embargo, swelling uneasiness over Watergate and the worsening specter of inflation, the Dow lost some 180 points in 60 days toward the end of 1973. The widely followed indicator rose to its 1974 high of 892 in March, then began a perilous saw-toothed decline that seemed almost irreversible (see chart...
...newspaper workers. In recent weeks, however, an N.U.J. drive against the high-profit, low-wage provincial papers outside London has threatened to change that situation. What began as a pay dispute on the "provincials" has ballooned into a national row over newspaper economics, editors' rights and the specter of censorship by labor...
...state revenue, the casino idea was supported by Atlantic City businessmen who were hoping that the roulette wheel would restore the seaside resort's fading image. But a citizens' group calling itself Casinos-No Dice, backed by state legislators, law-enforcement officials and clergymen, raised the specter of an invasion of the casinos by organized crime. Though the pro-casino forces outspent Casinos-No Dice by some 20 to 1 and early opinion polls showed the measure winning easily, it was voted down 2 to 1. Muttered one Atlantic City promoter: "I guess we'll have...
...Third World and comes across aggressively, enthusiastically and eloquently. Many people consider the man a threat to post-junta stability; of all the politicians (besides the Communists, who have little apparent power or desire to exert any radical influenced, have suffered suppression, and are newly haunted by the specter of Chile), he is least acceptable to the army and the Americans, who are still feared as potentially troublesome. As Kissinger told Greek Archibishop Iakovos, with blithe overgeneralization, "We do not wish at all to see Papandreou governing Greece because this would mean subjecting Greece to Communist power...
...grain deal was a "political" gesture and "that if we didn't cancel the sale, Congress would impose [mandatory export] controls." The grain sale was held back on the eve of the Administration's economic proposals, and Ford was clearly not eager to have the inflationary specter of a large grain export dangling before the public-and the Democrats. The Republicans and the nation are still smarting from the "great grain robbery" of 1972, when the Soviets secretly bought up some 25% of America's wheat crop plus much corn...