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...James Steam, 24, fought for three years as a Marine in Viet Nam. "I didn't fight for the flag," he says. "I fought for the freedom we were supposedly there to protect. When I come back and try to exercise that freedom, they say you don't have the right." He wears a flag shirt anyway...
...serious, but some qualifications are necessary. The economic picture appears bleaker than it really is because the market tends to overreact. It jumps extravagantly when the economy is strong, plunges precipitously when business weakens (and sometimes when it does not). Moreover, the economy has not suddenly run out of steam because of some inexplicable decline of consumer demand. Most of the drops in profits and jobs are the result of a deliberate, managed slowdown...
...rampage last fall in Chicago. "I got the story because I can run like a scared antelope when I have to," he says. "I ran five miles with those kids that night, and I kept up with them." After the running, he really had to pour on the steam, banging out some ten pages against a deadline only 40 minutes away, finishing so close to it that he did not even have a chance to read the story over. In the eyewitness account, Fitzpatrick refuses to moralize. Instead, he creates a word picture of the rampage that leaves the reader...
...plunged nearly 50 points in the five previous trading days, started to surge for the first time in five weeks. The rise was soon interrupted by the Defense Department's announcement that the U.S. would provide aid to South Vietnamese fighting in Cambodia. But the rally picked up steam again and was slowed only a bit by the President's televised pronouncement that U.S. troops were on the attack in Cambodia. The general feeling was that if the operation turns out to be limited and surgical, it will not overaffect the market. If it widens or lengthens...
...life is uncomfortable at best. The Soviet army is no exception. The new recruit sleeps in tents in summer. In winter he sleeps in bleak barracks where he has a bunk, night table and a tiny cupboard for toilet articles. Once a week, many platoons visit the nearby steam bath (the traditional Russian form of bathing...