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...world has now discovered the dangers inherent in the Federal Reserve Board's pursuit of tight-money policies. It is tragic to see 12 million Americans unemployed, thousands of U.S. companies in bankruptcy and hordes of Third World countries on the brink of default. No wonder John Maynard Keynes warned us to avoid high interest rates...
...Haute decadence" is my opinion of Cornelia Guest and her debut as a rock performer [Jan. 10]. It is tragic that again it is "fashionable to flaunt the traditional, frivolous perquisites of wealth and class...
...first the outcome seemed but the tragic last act in a weird drama pitting police against crazed cultists. But as fresh details began to emerge about the bloody siege that left one policeman and seven blacks dead in Memphis two weeks ago, the judgment and conduct of police officials in handling the 30-hr. ordeal triggered a citywide debate and at least one federal probe. Said Maxine Smith, executive secretary of the Memphis chapter of the N.A.A.C.P.: "The police did not go into the house to apprehend, but to kill." Ray Maples, president of the Memphis Police Association, countered angrily...
...criticism increased, but, strangely, it has spawned another, more benign sentiment: White shouldn't run because, hurt by the corruption issue, he has no chance of winning. The New York Times jumped into the act last month with three long articles portraying White's career as approaching a tragic end thanks to his machine Time magazine chimed in with a similar piece on January 3 Globe columnist lan Menzies then summed up the prevailing media wisdom last Thursday. "If he does not run, he will be remembered, barring any indictment, for what he did for the city, which...
...stores began offering a line of Monroe-inspired blouses, sweaters and tight pants. Says Bloomingdale's Vice President Kal Ruttenstein: "The '50s are a source of inspiration to young people. Kids think of the way Monroe appeared on the screen and don't deal with the tragic elements of her life...