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Elvis' upper lip still curls upward a bit, and his eyelids tend toward an insolent droop, but there is simply no energy left. It's more than generation gap that places the man closer to Dean Martin and Tom Jo?es than any current rock performer. Was this pathetic old man the fifties' Mick Jagger? Is this then the performer's grand finale...
According to the report, "in classroom discussions, students felt that upward of 50 to 75 per cent of their classmates had used marijuana." When ballots were counted. however. only 18 per cent admitted to having smoked grass one or more times. "The use of other stimulants, depressants, or drug derivatives was insignificant," the report added. "Only three of the 274 students polled claimed they had used...
Supporters and Critics. He does all this, or claims to, by getting his patient to write in ways that promote positive values. Someone whose base lines waver (a sign of instability) or descend (depression, fear) is asked to practice running the lines upward on the page (optimism, ambition) until it becomes a habit. When that happens, De Sainte Colombe insists, the subconscious gets the message, and the undesired personality defect vanishes...
...into bankruptcy have subsided. Indeed, conditions have eased so much that two tiny banks-Canal National Bank of Portland, Me., and Citizens Bank of Jonesboro, Ark.-in the past two weeks have cut their "prime" loan rate (the minimum charge from which all other rates on business loans scale upward) from 8% to 7½%. Big-city banks are not yet ready to follow, but moneymen are increasingly hopeful that they will do so sometime this fall. Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans at week's end went further to say that he could foresee the prime rate and the yield...
...blinding flash turns the night instantly, terrifyingly, into day. A pillar of fire roils up toward the sky. Windows shatter. A mighty wind whips the stunned onlookers peering upward from the streets, government buildings, the Imperial Palace. But there are few injuries, even fewer deaths. The blast, the Japanese people are told by a U.S. radio broadcast the next day, was a fearful new weapon, the atomic bomb. It had been deliberately triggered at a high altitude, offshore, to show them its power but spare them its hideous consequences. If they do not want the next Bomb...