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...glories of le Général and the Resistance. Yet a new generation has grown up in France in the 30 years since the Resistance, and it has been five years since French voters ousted De Gaulle. Chaban's campaign seems to be running out of steam...
...profits should level out later this year, partly because increased supplies of some petroleum products-notably home heating oil-have taken the steam out of price rises. Yet even before last week's reports, oil profits had become substantial by almost any measure. According to First National City Bank, the industry's profit return on net worth for 1973 was 15.6%, a shade higher than the average for all manufacturing companies; oil profits in 1973 were 8% of sales, v. 5.6% for all manufacturing...
...college kids for the first time began to center their lives around the movies as an art form. Almost paradoxically, movies in Cambridge began to hit their peak at about the same time as student radicalism. Passive movie going merged with active protest. The student movement was gaining steam at the same time that the entrepreneurs who started the Orson Welles were figuring that the Cambridge movie public was large enough to support two new theaters...
...gravelly voice on the platform speaker rasps out, "Southern Crescent, Amtrack train for New York, arriving from Washington, D.C. and points south, on Track 5. All aboard." In a rush the passengers grab their suitcases, shopping bags, and knapsacks and board the train. The engine starts up again and steam floats up to the steel rafters of the station. After a minute in a cramped tunnel, the train emerges into the early Sunday morning sunshine...
...getting rid of controls, Congress and the Administration are making a risky bet that a record harvest this fall, and a potential drop in oil prices resulting from increased supplies will take much of the steam out of the present inflation. If they are wrong, the big loser will be the already price-burdened U.S. consumer...