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...have hit historic highs in the last few weeks. "Cyclical" stocks-shares in companies whose earnings typically rise and fall with the general economy-are improving. These include stocks of hotels, machine tool, auto and appliance firms. Moreover, the U.S. economy is now growing more rapidly and suffering less swift inflation than the economies of most other industrial nations. Though many Americans seem unaware of that fact, it has not been lost on foreign investors. Net foreign purchases of U.S. stocks during the first six months of 1972 reached an estimated $750 million, exceeding the total...
Jane Austen may have been a great novelist, but her hair was a mess. That bit of historical minutia was revealed by Scientist J.A. Swift of Britain's Unilever Research after an exhaustive analysis of a lock of hair that had been bequeathed by Miss Austen to her niece and ended among the relics of the Jane Austen Society. His scanning electron microscope, Swift reported in the erudite scientific journal Nature, showed that changes brought about in individual hairs by brushing and combing were absent from the lock of the woman who wrote Pride and Prejudice. "It must...
Eagleton's sudden rise and fall in national Democratic politics was one of the odder chapters of recent American politics, surely sufficiently swift to give any man the psychic bends. In his cheeriness, there was some suggestion that Eagleton himself might have had doubts about his ability to take the strain. But overall, he endured his abrupt anointment and excommunication with thoroughbred resilience. As he left the Senate after his final session with McGovern, Eagleton insisted upon shaking hands with a dozen onlookers on the street: "Goodnight folks. Vote for McGovern...
...prepared. The Israelis, normally alert, were caught by surprise; Premier Golda Meir delayed any assessment pending further word from Sadat. In Moscow, Tass waited a full 24 hours to comment, a sure sign that the Kremlin had not worked out answers ahead of time. The eventual explanation for the swift departure of Soviet personnel from Egypt was lame: "Now [they] have completed their functions, and the sides deemed it expedient to bring back military personnel sent to Egypt for a limited period." To Americans that had an oddly familiar sound-like a declaration that Egyptianization had been a complete success...
...Alex's swift fantasies of being a basketball star, in his coach's small complacent cruelties that drive Alex to quit, an American dream of winning goes winkling out. The thoroughfares of escape-rivers, highways-are encrusted, blocked arteries on the landscape...