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...Poor's yielded an even higher estimate: 450. The actual figure is below 50 -and the overall trend has been downward. According to a FORTUNE survey, the 1975 median profit margin of the nation's 500 largest industrial corporations shrank to 3.9% of sales. That was the thinnest margin in 17 years...
Clearly, the "indestructible monolithic unity" of the international Communist movement-once the theme of such meetings-had been eroded to the thinnest, hardly visible varnish. Boldly summing up the sentiments of most of the Western party leaders, Spain's Santiago Carrillo declared that "there can be no doubt that we Communists today have no center of leadership and are not bound by any international discipline...
...games of ticktacktoe between Ehrlichman and the Secretary of State. One game is a draw. The other game shows Ehrlichman a winner. In the shade of this trophy−this fun-and-games scalp−Ehrlichman wrote his roman à clef, The Company, in which Kissinger, under the thinnest of disguises, has taken a second clobbering that the old ticktacktoe loser could hardly have dreamed of five years...
...wine and waited. He turned his head slowly. His face is striking mostly for its rich color and almost pliable quality of skin. At 39, he still seems to have a baby face. His eyes are distinctive in their brownness and almost quivering sensitivity. He has the thinnest eyebrows, and a thin moustache...
Instead, he found himself in a black cell, from which he was dragged for interrogation 18 hours a day six days a week. He subsisted on sour bread, watery soup, the thinnest of porridges-and almost no sleep. More than once he plotted suicide. "Memory keeps you alive," he sums up. Dolgun clearly has an extraordinary memory, and he used it in various ways to survive...