New York, Feb. 14—Good news is so rare one wonders why there aren’t more parades when there is something to parade about. Last year inflation dropped below 4 per cent, but you would think it was a national secret. Andropov should tell Alger Hiss to blurt it out. At least then The Nation magazine would believe it.
Then there is a relatively recent development; I mean the shambling of OPEC. It could not have happened to nicer people. And when one thinks back on it . . . 1973-1982—ten years during which a few bureaucrats on whose subsoil the geological gods smiled during the Pleistocene Age or whenever, meeting in Geneva and telling the world what we were all going to pay for oil.
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